“I was well aware of the lack of diversity.”The actor, who played the “Friends” character for ten seasons, has revealed he was very aware of the lack of diversity on the show.
“One of the first girlfriends I had on the show was an Asian American woman, and later I dated African American women. That was a very conscious push on my part.” While “Friends” remains extremely popular 16 years after its finale — Netflix paid $100m for its subscribers to have access to reruns up to the end of last year — there are reports of younger audience members who did not grow up with the show taking issue with certain storylines, with some going so far as to describe them as sexist, homophobic and transphobic.“I don’t care,” he said of the criticism.
He added: “It’s interesting also how the show handled the Judaism of the characters. I don’t think that was earth-shattering or groundbreaking at all, but I for one was glad that we had at least one episode where it wasn’t just about Christmas. It was also Hanukkah and, even though I played the Hanukkah armadillo — I was glad that we at least acknowledged the differences in religious observation.”
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lovebscott We get it, David Schwimmer was woke 🙄
lovebscott This is some mess....
lovebscott Who cares!?!
lovebscott Old old news
lovebscott Ever watch TCM? Hollywood teaches racism
lovebscott I only watched Friends when I learned Aisha Tyler was on. And when she left the show, I stopped watching.
lovebscott So Schwimmer is one of the reasons Friends eventually sucked, worrying about virtue signalling more than humor. Good to know. He always seemed like garbage.
lovebscott Is this really news? Wasn’t Friends cancelled about a decade ago and WTF has David Schwimmer been doing since then?
lovebscott DavidSchwimmer dating any decent-looking chick is obviously a Hollywood fantasy because it sure as hell isn't reality.
lovebscott Someone needs attention lol.
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lovebscott Which was so ridiculous because we all know white guys love the brown suga...stopPlaying
lovebscott They knew he’d never go back
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