Agassi was sitting in the audience at the time of filming, but stormed out during the scene.
“‘Co-opted’ gives him too much credit.
“Well, I guess you’re right.
Brooke Shields recalls her ‘Friends’ guest-starring role and Andre Agassi’s violent reaction to it.Brian D. McLaughlin/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images; JEAN-LOUP GAUTREAU/AFP via Getty Images
It co-opted it for me emotionally, because all of a sudden then my focus went to him.”
I was, like, ‘I had a mint!'”
According to Shields, Agassi “stormed out” of the studio after seeing Shields lick LeBlanc’s fingers.
“He said, ‘Everybody’s making fun of me.
You made a fool of me by that behavior.’
I’m, like, ‘It’s comedy!
What is the matter with you?'”
Agassi wrote about his methamphetamine use in his 2009 autobiography.
“Who wins for that?
That’s just don’t!”
“We had done it in rehearsal, and they said, ‘It’s too crazy.
Don’t do it,'” she added.
“And I begged for it.
‘It’s so funny.
It just makes her crazier.
And she’s pretty, so she needs to really be crazy.’
And they were, like, ‘No, no.’
We did the first take, and it was fine.
And then the second take, they scream, ‘Shields!
Put it back in!’
The next day, I was asked if I wanted to do my own television show.”
Read the full Shields interview atThe New Yorker.
