Matthew Perry was the One without him
Matthew Perry, the man who played Chandler on Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, died after he died in his Los Angeles home
Born in Massachusetts, the actor was raised in various parts of Canada, often traveling between the homes of his split parents in Los Angeles and Montreal. In Canada, he became a nationally ranked junior tennis player.
“If the audience didn’t laugh, I thought I would die because that’s not healthy for sure,” she wrote in the memoir. I could say a line and it wouldn’t make the audience laugh. I would experience convulsions and sweat a lot. I was supposed to get a laugh but I wouldn’t like it. I felt that every night. I was in a bad place due to this pressure. There were six people making the show, only one of them was sick.
“Whenever I bumped into something that I didn’t really want to share, I would think of the people that I would be helping, and it would keep me going,” the actor told The New York Times last year.
After the publication of his memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing,” which was candid about addiction and recovery, he died. He wrote in that book that he spent a great deal of the best years of his career in conditions that do not encourage great acting. But he was great. It had seemed reasonable, if rose-colored to hope that he would return to being his nervy, instinctive genius of his peak years. That hope is now foreclosed.
“I loved his show, and I also knew it was going to be the best time of my life,” she said during an ABC News Nightline interview with Diane Sawyer last year.
Perry was cast in Friends, the sitcom that shot him to fame, at age 24. He played the character of Chandler on the sitcom, a sarcastic yet friendly commitment-phobe who later fell in love with Monica, played by Cox.
According to the Los Angeles Times, a person found the lifeless body of a man at his Los Angeles home on Saturday.
A confession: When I received a news alert that the actor Matthew Perry had died, my mind adopted the particular cadence that Perry perfected as Chandler Bing, the character he played for 10 seasons on the NBC sitcom “Friends.” I was wondering if this was any sadder.
Matthew Perry, who played ‘Chandler Bing’ in ‘Friends’, has passed away at the age of 51 in Los Angeles. His body was found at his home by his girlfriend, who reported him missing on Saturday. In his book ‘Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing’, he had revealed that he had been battling alcoholism and other addictions for a number of years.