{"id":12055,"date":"2021-01-29T22:19:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T22:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12055"},"modified":"2021-02-04T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T01:34:12","slug":"julia-roberts-matthew-perry-friends-fax","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/julia-roberts-matthew-perry-friends-fax\/","title":{"rendered":"Flirting Over Faxing? That&#8217;s So 90s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width wp-image-12096 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-747630.jpg\" alt=\"Actor Matthew Perry and actress Julia Roberts\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" data-gz_credit=\" Liaison\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These days, there are lots of ways to flirt with someone: Slide into the DMs, sending a saucy text, leave a suggestive emoji on a post, etc. But back in the <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/best-claw-clips-2021\/\">90s<\/a>, options were limited.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/the-one-we-wouldnt-normally-do-the-uncensored-story-of-the-friends-super-bowl-episode\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>, <em>Friends<\/em> creators revealed that there was once some flirty faxing, yes FAXING, going on between series regular, Matthew Perry, and <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/christian-siriano-vote-print-hollywood\/\">Julia Roberts,<\/a> who ended up guest starring on a 1996 episode called \u201cThe One After the Super Bowl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Getting Julia Roberts was incredibly exciting,&#8221; said <em>Friends<\/em> co-creator, Marta Kauffman. &#8220;We knew she would have the right touch for it. And when she said yes, it was pretty awesome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Matthew asked her to be on the show,\u201d co-creator Kevin Bright recalled. \u201cShe wrote back to him, \u2018Write me a paper on quantum physics and I\u2019ll do it.\u2019 My understanding is that Matthew went away and wrote a paper and faxed it to her the next day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width wp-image-12098 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/01\/combine_images-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Julia Roberts, Matthew Perry\" width=\"1024\" height=\"753\" data-gz_credit=\"MEGA\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former <em>Friends<\/em> writer, Alexa Jungle, also revealed to the outlet that the faxes were hardly just about scientific finding swaps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They may have met before the episode, but she was interested in him from afar because he&#8217;s so charming,&#8221; Jungle said. &#8220;There was a lot of flirting over faxing. She was giving him these questionnaires like, &#8216;Why should I go out with you?&#8217; And everyone in the writers&#8217; room helped him explain to her why.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He could do pretty well without us, but there was no question we were on Team Matthew and trying to make it happen for him,&#8221; she continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember standing with her on the sidelines. She kept saying, &#8216;Chandler&#8217;s so funny!&#8217; And I&#8217;m like, &#8216;I wrote every one of those lines!&#8217; I don&#8217;t know if she fell in love with Matthew on the spot but they soon started dating,&#8221; episode co-writer, Jeff Astrof, added.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width wp-image-12097 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/01\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Friends\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-gz_credit=\"NBC\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the memorable episode, Roberts played Susie Moss, a former friend of Perry&#8217;s Chandler Bing who fakes a hook-up with him to get revenge for a childhood prank. After filming wrapped, the Emmy nominated actor and future <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/emma-roberts-pretty-woman\/\">Oscar-winning actress<\/a> continued their relationship off scene and were spotted out on a number of dates from 1996 to 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts, who split from husband, Lyle Lovett, in 1995, of course went on to marry cameraman ,Danny Moder, in 2002. Perry dated <em>Masters Of Sex<\/em> actress, Lizzy Caplan, from 2006 to 2012 and got engaged to literary manager, Molly Hurwitz last November.,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26534,"featured_media":12097,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Matthew Perry And Julia Roberts Flirted Over Fax Ahead Of A 1996 &#039;Friends&#039; Episode<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In an recent interview, the creators and writers of &quot;Friends&quot; revealed Matthew Perry and guest star Julia Roberts exchanged flirty faxes ahead of a 1996 episode.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/julia-roberts-matthew-perry-friends-fax\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flirting Over Faxing? 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