Over its ten seasons and its 236 episodes, Friends featured over 73 famous guest stars.
But now we learn that another ultra-famous actor was supposed to appear on the iconic sitcom.
Freddie Prinze Jr. tells Entertainment Weekly that Tom Hanks was actually the first choice to portray the “manny” Ross (David Schwimmer) and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) hired in “The One With the Male Nanny.”
“I wasn’t even supposed to be [Sandy], that was originally offered to Tom Hanks but he wasn’t gonna make it back from his film on time,” Prinze told Entertainment Weekly. “And so my agent called me and said, ‘Do you want to be on Friends? And I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll do an episode of Friends. That’ll be great.’ He said, ‘Yeah, it shoots tomorrow.’ and I was like, ‘What?’ He said, ‘Yes, tomorrow so I’ll send you the script.’”
The slew of famous actors and actresses that made an appearance on the show includes Reese Witherspoon, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Danny DeVitto, Susan Sarandon, Ben Stiller, Helen Hunt, Paul Rudd, Brooke Shields and many many more.
