Actress Lisa Kudrow says it’s actually a good thing that “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/friends">Friends</a>” didn’t have many black people as part of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">cast</a>.
The 59-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">actress</a> made these statements during a recent <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/lisa-kudrow-is-ready-for-another-comeback">interview</a> with The Daily Beast. “Well, I feel like it was a show created by two people who went to Brandeis and wrote about their lives after college,” Kudrow said. 
“And for shows especially, when it’s going to be a comedy that’s character-driven, you write what you know. They have no business writing stories about the experiences of being a person of color,” she continued. “I think at that time, the big problem that I was seeing was, ‘Where’s the apprenticeship?’”
The Emmy Award-winning sitcom, which aired from 1994 to 2004, has come under fire lately for its lack of diversity in casting. Series co-creator Marta Kauffman feels so terrible about relegating black actors to bit parts that she pledged $4 million to Brandeis University to create a scholarship that would benefit black students specifically. 
“I’ve learned a lot in the last 20 years,” Kauffman told the Los Angeles Times. “Admitting and accepting guilt is not easy. It’s painful looking at yourself in the mirror. I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know better 25 years ago.”
“It took me a long time to begin to understand how I internalized systemic racism,” she told the university, as The Daily Wire originally <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/friends-creator-pledges-4-million-to-atone-for-lack-of-black-leads-on-the-series">reported</a>. “I’ve been working really hard to become an ally, an anti-racist. And this seemed to me to be a way that I could participate in the conversation from a white woman’s perspective.”
Kauffman said she really started thinking about diversity after the death of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/george-floyd">George Floyd</a>. 
“It was after what happened to George Floyd that I began to wrestle with my having bought into systemic racism in ways I was never aware of,” Kauffman told the LA Times. “That was really the moment that I began to examine the ways I had participated. I knew then I needed to course-correct.”
Kauffman also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/next-on-the-friends-apology-tour-co-creator-regrets-misgendering-chandlers-dad">apologized</a> for the treatment of Chandler’s father, who was transgender. 
“We kept referring to [Helena] as ‘Chandler’s father,’ even though Chandler’s father was trans,” Kauffman said. “Pronouns were not yet something that I understood, so we didn’t refer to that character as ‘she.’ That was a mistake.&#8221;


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