Superstitious Friends cast recall on-set accident that occurred when they skipped pre-show ritual

This text comprises spoilers on Pals: The Reunion

Who knew the Pals solid have been a superstitious bunch?

However one time after they did not trouble doing their regular pre-episode huddle and Matt LeBlanc was injured on set, not one other day glided by the place the group did not go right into a huddle previous to filming. 

The unlucky accident occurred whereas they have been filming the episode titled ‘The One The place No One Was Prepared’ again in 1996, the place chances are you’ll recall LeBlanc’s character Joey and Chandler (performed by Matthew Perry) have been preventing over a chair as a substitute of on the brink of attend Ross’s (David Schwimmer) operate.

“Chandelier and Joey have been preventing over this chair and Joey runs and jumps into the chair,” collection creator David Crane defined within the TV particular, Pals: The Reunion. 

“We shot it thrice and it went completely,” co-creator Marta Kauffman added. “Lord is aware of why we needed to shoot it a fourth time.”

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As a result of the fourth time wasn’t a attraction, and as LeBlanc jumped into the chair, he tripped and dislocated his left shoulder. 

“I went simply to leap over the espresso desk however in some way tripped and my legs went up within the air and my shoulder got here out of the socket,” LeBlanc confirmed. 

Watch the scene within the video above.

As his Pals castmates watched again the footage again within the reunion, they could not assist however wince in the meanwhile LeBlanc was injured because it performed out on the display. Because the scene required everybody to be in the identical shot, filming got here to an finish that day and paramedics have been referred to as.

LeBlanc was taken to the hospital and required a sling for the following few weeks, so producers then needed to write the damage into the present. Bear in mind the episode the place Joey took a tumble after leaping on the mattress and was scolded by Chandler? Then the following day, he was filmed carrying a sling? Properly, stated sling was not a prop.

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“There was one factor we did each present that we did not try this evening earlier than we began [filming],” LeBlanc mirrored along with his castmates, with Jennifer Aniston recalling, “Our huddle. We did not do it.”

Lisa Kudrow defined that they have been taking too lengthy backstage and the viewers was ready, so that they skipped the huddle and went straight into filming. By no means once more. 

“Then after that we would be like, ‘Do we have to do the huddle?’ And [LeBlanc] would say, ‘Yeah, as a result of I do not need anything falling off me.’ After that we at all times did it,” she stated.

Pals: The Reunion premieres on Binge on Could 27.

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