Friends fanatics suppose they know the whole thing about the iconic sitcom. And perhaps that is true. But in addition they must be true television enthusiasts to grasp that the display crossed over with some other famous '90s sitcom, Mad About You. And that cross-over used to be executed on account of one actor... Lisa Kudrow.
Funnily enough one in all Lisa Kudrow's biggest roles outside of Friends was once a personality she played on Friends... Phoebe's twin sister, Ursula. Although Ursula started out as having only some traces on Mad About You, she changed into in an instant recognizable and due to this fact the creators of Friends had to find a way of dealing with the fact that the similar actor used to be showing in two other TV displays, set in the identical city, that aired around the identical time. Here's the truth about Pheobe's evil twin sister...
Crossing Mad About You Over With Friends
Given that Lisa Kudrow used to be simply breaking into the mainstream, there had to be some reason for her appearance on two hit TV displays. It would be different if the two displays aired on different networks at other times... however that wasn't the case...
"When Friends got its timeslot on Thursday night at 8:30, after Mad About You, then they needed to start discussing - not immediately, but listen, 'I'm allowed to be on Mad About You, and I love Mad About You,'" Lisa Kudrow defined in her interview with Emmy TV Legends. "Everybody realized, 'Well, we need some explanation for the audience. Like why you're seeing the same girl with the same voice at 8:00 and at 8:30 on two different shows. We need an explanation.' I don't know if it was [Friends co-creators] Marta [Kauffman] and David [Crane] or [Mad About You creator] Danny Jacobson who came up with, 'They're twin sisters.'"
Lisa went on to say that she beloved the idea that her persona on Friends and her persona on Mad About You have been twin sisters. She thought that the two characters have been highest to connect that approach as they were each two variations of an excessively distinctive, and strange persona.
"I saw Ursula as this nice person. You know, really nice, just didn't pay attention to anything. And Phoebe was a nice person. She was fiery. There was more to her. I mean, because she had more than two lines," Lisa stated. "She was a decent person but she was a little fiery. Not as dense and doesn't get things [as Ursula]."
To Lisa, Phoebe used to be any person who saw the world utterly another way than most people. She wasn't dumb. She just had a unique standpoint, and numerous that contributed to the secret of making Phoebe one of the most beloved characters in tv history.
Making Ursula The 'Evil' Twin
While Lisa Kudrow by no means saw her Ursula character as a nasty individual, she surely became that on Friends. If you take a look at Ursula on Mad About You, there are components of her which are unappealing, however she is a long way from a bad person. However, for those who watch Ursula on Friends, she is a long way from anyone you wish to have to hang out with.
"I think it was the Friends writers who decided that Ursula was this evil person," Lisa laughed. "Maybe they didn't like that they had to include her. I don't know. But I remember the first time. They were like, 'Alright, so here she is'. I don't remember what the story was. But I remember thinking, 'Oh, that's kinda mean. She's mean? I don't think she's mean.'"
Lisa claims that the Friends writers tried to go Urusula off to her as nice however obvious. But Lisa didn't buy it. She knew that the character was being made to be a meaner model of Pheobe. This used to be almost certainly performed to further differentiate the characters as well as get the audience to like Phoebe even more than they already did. A personality, via the manner, who Lisa really enjoyed playing.
But given the incontrovertible fact that Danny Jacobson and the writers of Mad About You had created the personality of Ursula, chances are high that they were not too overjoyed about her portrayal on Friends.
"I don't know how Danny Jacobson or whoever was running Mad About You at the time felt about [Ursula's portrayal on Friends]," Lisa told TV Emmy Legends. "Because, initially, it was just to let me go out to do Mad About You and do [Friends]."
Around the same time, NBC was once in reality into the cross-over doable of their presentations. They believed it was once a way to additional interact audiences and get them to track in to more in their displays.
"Because all of these shows took place in New York. Mad About You, Friends, Seinfeld," Lisa said.
Another approach they did this was to incorporate a blackout that the town was experiencing. This was another way that Friends and Mad About You were connected to each other, both had episodes coping with a New Your City-wide blackout. But, in fact, additionally they introduced on Helen Hunt's Mad About You character onto Friends for a temporary cameo where she mixes up Phoebe for Ursula.
When Mad About You ended in 1999, Friends had extra of a license to make Ursula into as much of the 'evil twin' trope as they sought after.
Regardless of whether or not or not Usurual used to be meant to be as merciless as she ended up being in Friends, it seems that as though Lisa Kudrow had a blast playing the persona.
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