Aisha Tyler has shared reminiscences about auditioning for Pals in 2003 on iHeartRadio’s And That’s What You REALLY Missed podcast.
“By the point I auditioned for Pals, I had seen each episode of Pals — like each single one,” she stated. “Which didn’t make me assured. It simply made me know, properly, I understand how to inform a Pals joke. However like, am I gonna do it properly?”
Studying with David Schwimmer for the a part of his character Ross’s girlfriend, Charlie Wheeler, was “intimidating,” she stated, though Schwimmer himself was “pretty.”
When she landed the function, Tyler stated she was imagined to do 4 episodes. However she ended up filming 9.
“On the finish, it’s very very like theater, you do a curtain name, then all people bows,” she defined. “You’re ready within the wings, and so they’ll introduce the visitor stars, after which they’ll introduce the principle forged. So, I’d be one of many final individuals that will exit earlier than the principle forged.”
She went on to share a candy Matthew Perry reminiscence from her first episode: “Proper earlier than I went out on the finish of my first taping, Matthew Perry leaned in and stated, ‘Prepare on your life to vary.’”
Tyler hasn’t forgotten his phrases.
“It was simply such a candy, beneficiant factor to say,” she stated. “It wasn’t like, ‘Uh-oh.’ He was like, ‘That is thrilling. It’s gonna be thrilling for you.’ And I by no means forgot that second as a result of it actually did change my life.”
