Five Years After Phoebe
Lisa Kudrow didn’t start out wanting to be an actor: she studied sociobiology in college and wanted to become a researcher. Plans changed, and she spent ten years playing flighty Phoebe on “Friends.” Over the years she became more like her character: “I lost a lot of vocabulary.”
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