When I think back to all the terrible people the characters on Friends date over the course of the sitcom’s 10 seasons on NBC, the last person who comes to mind is Julie.
The character, played by actress Lauren Tom, is introduced in the first few episodes of the second season, where it’s explained that she and Ross recently reconnected after attending grad school together. Sure, she delays the will-they-or-won’t-they courtship between Ross and Rachel, but was she really that bad? According to Tom, the show’s live audiences couldn’t stand her. While reminiscing about the show on Today, Tom revealed that the people attending Friends‘ live tapings would openly boo and heckle her because they were firmly on #TeamRachel.
“I wasn’t prepared for the amount of venom I was about to receive in a live audience where they actually booed my character,” she said. “And, of course, I was trying very hard not to get my feelings hurt. So I had to get used to that. But I did understand intellectually that, you know, the audience was meant to be rooting for Rachel. Even I was rooting for Rachel, on some level, ’cause I was a fan of the show.”
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