Chandler Muriel Bing, known as Matthew Perry, grew into stardom by his role on Friends. During his time on the popular series, Perry had also been apart of several movies. A few of these popular movies were “Fools Rush In”, “Almost Heroes”, “The Whole Nine Yards”, and it’s sequel “The Whole Ten Yards” in 2004 (Bio Perry). Throughout the T.V. series Perry had battled addictions to alcohol and prescription medications (Bio Perry). In an interview with E-Online Perry spoke up about his addiction. In the interview he said, “I was in the white-hot flame of fame. The six of us were just everywhere all the time. From an outsider’s perspective, it would seem like I had it all. It was actually a very lonely time for me because I was suffering from alcoholism. It was going on before Friends, but it’s a progressive disease (Grossberg 1).” After the Friends series, Perry has been in popular movies like “Numb”, “Birds of America”, and “17 Again” (Bio Perry). Currently Matthew Perry is in a new T.V. series “The Odd Couple” and is a “passionate advocate of drug courts (Grossberg 1)” …show more content…
After the T.V. show ended the viewers could no longer see the characters that they had grown to love and see their friendship. “Were they still friends?” was a question that was thought between fans of the T.V. series. In an interview with ET Online, Matt LeBlanc said, “We don’t get to see each other as much as we used to, but whenever they get back together it’s just like old times (Flanigan 1).” He says that, “It’s like no time has elapsed you know, but when they get back together it’s like it never stopped (Flanigan 1).” Even though the cast members have gone their own ways onto bigger acting projects, they still have a strong connection from their times on Friends, which was a total of ten