Her series Friends famously concluded with her character Phoebe Buffay marrying Mike, played by a young Paul Rudd.
And Lisa Kudrow revealed her prediction for how the couple would be faring during their coronavirus quarantine in a new interview with the The Sunday Times.
The 56-year-old actress delved into the alternate future while also considering how Friends would differ if it were remade today.
Arts fan: Lisa Kudrow, 56, theorized that she and her Friends husband Mike (Paul Rudd) would become ‘militaristic about creating art’ if they were under coronavirus quarantine; shown in November
‘I feel like if they’d had kids she would be militaristic about creating art,’ she mused. ‘So their place would be overrun with huge, outlandish projects.’
Phoebe first connected with Mike in the series’ penultimate season when Joey forgot to find someone to accompany her on a double date, so he just called out for a random person named ‘Mike’ in the coffee shop.
Their character’s dated on and off through the ninth and tenth seasons, and she ultimately married him at the end of the series after a brief flirtation with a first-season fling, played by Hank Azaria.
Audiences didn’t get to see much of married life for the couple, though Phoebe did joke that they could have multiple children and ‘teach them to sing like the von Trapp family’ from the Sound Of Music.
Happy ending: Phoebe married Mike at the end of the series after meeting him in the penultimate season and briefly breaking things off for a fling with her old boyfriend (played by Hank Azaria)
Give it a break: She thought Friends ‘would not be an all-white cast, for sure’ if it premiered today, though she urged fans to look at it as a time capsule, not for what they did wrong’
Lisa also considered how Friends would differ if it premiered in 2020, rather than in 1994, and decided it would be ‘completely different’ now.
‘Well, it would not be an all-white cast, for sure,’ she said.
She also urged viewers to consider the comedy hit with other shows from that era, rather than comparing its social failings to more progressive recent releases.
‘I’m not sure what else, but, to me, it should be looked at as a time capsule, not for what they did wrong,’ she explained.
Biding their time: She’s hoping to reunite with her castmates for an unscripted talkshow reunion special, though the pandemic has pushed it back at least until Thanksgiving in November
But even if parts of Friends might seem a bit retrograde by contemporary standards, the Comeback star was still proud of the territory her show covered.
‘Well, it would not be an all-white cast, for sure,” she explained. “I’m not sure what else, but, to me, it should be looked at as a time capsule, not for what they did wrong.
‘This show thought it was very progressive. There was a guy whose wife discovered she was gay and pregnant, and they raised the child together? We had surrogacy too. It was, at the time, progressive,’ she said.
Lisa will have a chance sometime soon to reunite with her castmates, though it’s not yet clear when that will be.
The Friends gang have agreed to film a reunion show, though it’ll just be an unscripted talk show and not them appearing as their iconic characters.
The coronavirus pandemic has scuttled the most recently plans for filming, though Friends producer Kevin Bright revealed on Better Together with Maria Menounos that the special might now film around Thanksgiving in late November.
Big role: be returning to the small screen with her most ambitious role in years for Space Force, the new comedy created by Greg Daniels, who developed the American version of The Office
Strong cast: She’ll play the wife of star Steve Carell, a general tasked with making the US’ Space Force operational and getting back to the moon in the Netflix series
Following her friends stint, Lisa appeared in two critically acclaimed seasons of The Comeback on HBO, as well as the web series Web Therapy, and she’s made numerous appearances on popular shows.
She’ll be returning to the small screen with her most ambitious role in years for Space Force, the new Netflix comedy starring The Office’s Steve Carell as a general tasked with making the military branch operational.
Lisa will be playing his wife in a recurring role.
The series was created by Carell with Greg Daniels, best known for developing the American version of The Office and for created Parks And Recreation.
The main cast also features John Malkovitch and comedian Ben Schwartz, and Silicon Valley’s Jimmy O. Yang, Noah Emmerich, Fred Willard and Glee’s Jane Lynch will all make appearances.