Chandler nearly cheated on Monica on “Friends.”
According to one-time “Friends” guest star Lisa Cash, she was set to play a woman that would have had an affair with Matthew Perry’s beloved Chandler character. Before the scene was filmed, the actress found out Perry had got the show runners to remove the storyline completely, she told TMZ.
“The scene was Chandler and Monica were arguing in Vegas about Monica having lunch with Richard [played by Tom Selleck],” she said, discussing what was the two-part season five finale. She then said the original script had Chandler ordering room service, which Cash’s character would have delivered.
“We end up talking and laughing and connecting, and Chandler ends up cheating on Monica with my character,” she told the outlet.
“We had rehearsed it and everything, and then the day before we were shooting in front of a live audience, I was told that [Perry] went to the writers and said the audience will never forgive him for cheating on Monica, which, he was probably right. That would have changed possibly the course of the show, and of his character,” she said.
The characters of Chandler and Monica ended up resolving their fight and married later on in the show’s run.
Cash eventually received a different role on “Friends” when she played a flight attendant caught between a Ross and Rachel prank war.
She said she enjoyed working with Perry and recalled him being “quick and talented.”