CouldMatthew Perry’s way of gettingJulia Robertsto agree to star onFriendsBEany more unique?
(Was I having a good year or what?)
But first, I had to woo her."
Matthew Perry and Julia Roberts on the set of ‘Friends’.Liaison
Roberts, however, didn’t send back some textbook response.
Sure, why not?
It was Julia f—ing Roberts."
The pair struck up a fast friendship via fax machine (!)
that quickly transformed into something more.
“We would already be a couple by the time we started filming theFriendsSuper Bowl episode.”
In the hilarious episode, Roberts plays Chandler’s childhood classmate Susie Moss.
“Matthew asked her to be on the show.
Staff writer Alexa Junge also remembered the notes fondly.
“There was a lot of flirting over faxing.
She was giving him these questionnaires like, ‘Why should I go out with you?'”
“And everyone in the writers’ room helped him explain to her why.
“Dating Julia Roberts had been too much for me,” he wrote, per theTimes.
“I had been constantly certain that she was going to break up with me.
Why would she not?
I was not enough; I could never be enough; I was broken, bent, unloveable.
I can’t begin to describe the look of confusion on her face.”
Representatives for Roberts did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.
Perry’s memoir,Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, hits shelves Nov. 1.
