Here’s the one where Matthew Perry landed Julia Roberts.
The “Friends” star is sharing the clever way he persuaded Julia Roberts to be in a 1996 episode called “The One After the Super Bowl, Part 2.”
Roberts, who had already been offered the post-Super Bowl role, “would only do the show if she could be in my storyline,” Perry wrote in an excerpt published by British newspaper The Times. He “had to woo” the Oscar winner, too, he explains in his “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing” memoir.
After sending over “three dozen roses” and a note, Roberts — who appeared as Chandler’s former classmate Susie Moss — gave Perry an assignment.
“Her reply was that if I adequately explained quantum physics to her, she’d agree to be on the show,” wrote Perry, now 53. “The following day, I sent her a paper all about wave-particle duality and the uncertainty principle and entanglement, and only some of it was metaphorical.”
He essentially got an A+, as Roberts, now 54, both said yes to the show and sent over “bagels — lots and lots of bagels.”
By the time that episode was underway, the pair struck up a fax machine-fueled friendship and relationship — which Perry wrote he ended because he felt he “could never be enough.”
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