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“Friends” star David Schwimmer has opened up about fame and the impression the present’s enormous success had on him, revealing that he struggled to take heed to the theme tune for some time as he “just had heard it so many times.”
Schwimmer mentioned his dislike of “I’ll Be There For You” by The Rembrandts throughout an look on the “Making a Scene” podcast, hosted by British comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
“I’ll be really honest, there was a time for quite a while that just hearing the theme song would really… uggh,” mentioned Schwimmer in the episode earlier this week.
“You know what I mean? I just had that reaction. I just had heard it so many times,” he added.
“Any time you’d go on a show or a talkshow or an interview, that would be your intro song. So I just didn’t have the greatest response to it for a period of time,” mentioned Schwimmer.
Schwimmer portrayed Ross Geller in the hit comedy, which spanned 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004 and additionally starred Lisa Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc and the late Matthew Perry.
Schwimmer additionally spoke about his struggles with fame, recalling how the final time he was in a position to seem in public with out attracting consideration was in 1994.
“Jim Burrows (“Friends” director) took the forged to Vegas… this was earlier than we have been on the air or something,” he mentioned.
“We were walking through the casino at one point, and he said to us, ‘remember this moment, it’s the last time you’re going to be able to walk through a casino like this’ – basically, with total anonymity,” mentioned Schwimmer.
He went on to recount one incident that hammered house Burrows’ level.
“The moment that I realised Jim Burrows was right, I was at LAX and I was trying to catch a flight. I’m not one of those actors that has an entourage with me. It’s me, that’s it. I just go solo,” mentioned Schwimmer.
“I’m going through LAX trying to find my flight, I hear a blood-curdling scream. I was genuinely frightened. I thought someone was being stabbed or something,” he mentioned.
“And a group of girls come and like just accost me… literally just scream and grab me,” added Schwimmer. “And they won’t let me go… I mean, it was terrifying.”
“It took me a long time to get adjusted to that kind of fame,” added Schwimmer.
“At that time you had three cars following you everywhere you went… staked outside your house. You had absolutely no privacy, ever.”
Schwimmer additionally informed Lucas and Walliams how his relationship with “Friends” and its theme tune has developed over the years, notably after his youngster began watching the present, aged about 9.
“I’d be making breakfast or whatever, and I’d hear my kid’s laughter,” he mentioned. “My whole relationship to that song and to the show changed again.”