The Friends alum reveals he was set to play a Republican journalist in the star-studded political satire.
Matthew Perryshared insight into his departure fromAdam McKay’s star-studded political satireDon’t Look Up.
“In fact, I was OK,” Perry writes (viaRolling Stone).
Matthew Perry looks back at his unrequited crush on his former costar Valerie Bertinelli in his forthcoming memoir ‘Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing’.Matthew Eisman/Getty Images
“I was given the shot at 11:00 a.m.,” Perry recounts.
“I woke up eleven hours later in a different hospital.
Apparently, the propofol had stopped my heart.
Jonah Hill and Meryl Streep in ‘Don’t Look Up’.Niko Tavernise/Netflix
It wasn’t a heart attack I didn’t flatline but nothing had been beating.
“If I hadn’t been onFriends, would he have stopped at three minutes?”
“DidFriendssave my life again?
He may have saved my life, but he also broke eight of my ribs.”
While he filmed a group scene withJonah Hilland the other stars, it didn’t make the final cut.
The film didn’t work out, but Perry learned an important lesson.
“I was hirable in something big without putting on a show,” he writes.
“In that meeting, Adam and I had just been two men talking.
I will treasure that moment, that day, that man.
What a good guy.
And I sincerely hope our paths cross again.”
“It’s like penguins.
“They walk around it until that penguin can walk on its own.
That’s kind of what the cast did for me.”
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thinghits bookshelves Nov. 1.
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