On August 29, former American producer and screenwriter Patty Lin will release her memoir, titled End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood. A work in which the one who wrote for the series Friends explains the reason why she ended her career in the seventh art, because of the working conditions. Monday, August 21, the Times unveiled excerpts from the book, relayed in particular by U.S. Magazine. In particular, he recalled that Jennifer Aniston could have stopped acting in the cult program 2000s before its tenth and final season.
Indeed, in 2004, the one who played the mythical role of Rachel Green had confided, during the show At Farewell to Friends, that she could no longer give the reply to his acolytes Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer after ten long years of filming. “I wanted it to end while people still loved us and we were in great shape”, said the 54-year-old actress. Ready to pass her turn after season 9 of the television series, Jennifer Aniston had specified that she “had
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For her part, Patty Lin has worked on the series during season 7, from 2000 to 2001. This is the most complicated period of her career, as she recounts in her book. While she had been, in the first place, “excited” at the idea of meeting the stars of the program, the screenwriter was quickly disillusioned when she realized that key players in Friends ‘seemed unhappy to be chained to a tired old series when they could have branched out’. “I felt like they were constantly wondering how each storyline could serve them specifically,” she detailed, specifying that the comedians had the annoying habit of refusing many jokes offered in their replies, thus forcing the teams to rework their texts, until dawn.
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