David Schwimmer could also be a fan of horror, however one on-set second from Friends gave him a scare not like something from the style.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly about his position in Disney+ and Hulu’s upcoming Goosebumps revival, Schwimmer, 58, shared the story of Matt LeBlanc’s surprising on-set harm throughout a stay taping.
“[Matt] was alleged to do a pratfall, and he truly dislocated his shoulder,” he recalled of the incident, which occurred whereas filming season 3’s The One Where No One Is Ready.
“He went completely white… He regarded like he was going to go out.”
The scene noticed Joey and Chandler (Matthew Perry) racing for a chair, with Joey diving onto it to safe his win. However, LeBlanc’s leap ended along with his shoulder popping misplaced.
Schwimmer remembered rapidly calling for the cameras to chop, describing the second as “genuinely scary.” Production on the episode got here to an abrupt halt, and LeBlanc was rushed to the hospital.
The forged revisited the incident throughout HBO Max’s 2021 Friends reunion particular, even wincing whereas watching unseen footage of the accident.
To accommodate LeBlanc’s real-life harm, the next episode, The One With the Jam, included a scene the place Joey dislocates his shoulder whereas leaping on a mattress, seamlessly explaining the sling LeBlanc needed to put on.
