The death of Matthew Perry at the age of 54 has shocked the entertainment world, which since learning of his death has paid tribute to the actor from Friends. Fans of the series have also shown their condolences to the man who for years played the unforgettable Chandler Bing in the Warner Bros. series. However, the silence of his co-stars is striking, as they continue without speaking.
Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow are “devastated,” according to a source cited by the page Page Six. “The cast is recovering from the loss of his brother, because that’s what Matty was: his brother,” the same outlet adds.
The absence of statements from the main actors of Friends -there are others who have done so-, when more than a day has passed since the actor was found lifeless in the jacuzzi of his house, it is due, according to the aforementioned publication, because the cast would be preparing a joint statement to say goodbye to Matthew Perry. In this way, all of them would continue acting as a group, just as they did during their successful years on the NBC series.
It must be remembered that the six actors joined forces almost from the premiere of Friends and they never took steps individually. Thus, for example, all of them negotiated their caches as a group for each of the seasons of the mythical fiction. They started charging $25,000 for each episode and ended up making $1 million per episode.
A few years ago, the six of them starred in a special Friends which marked the reunion of the entire cast to remember their glory years in the series. For that occasion they also negotiated as a group and it is said that each of them charged 2.5 million dollars for the program.