“And so my agent called me and said, ‘Do you want to be on Friends?
And I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll do an episode ofFriends.
That’ll be great.’
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He said, ‘Yeah, it shoots tomorrow.’
and I was like, ‘What?’
He said, ‘Yes, tomorrow so I’ll send you the script.'”
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Prinze says he arrived on set the next day where he had an encounter with series star Schwimmer.
“So I went in and I was totally nervous because it was on the day of shooting.
I didn’t even get to do a read-through,” he explains.
He came into the room and was like, ‘You’re going to love this, man.
It’s like a little two-act play and the crowd is so engaged, and so into it.
You’ll have a ton of fun, don’t worry about a thing.'"
And [Schwimmer] was like, ‘I heard you practicing, man.
You’re going to crush the song,'" Prinze recalls.
“I told him he shouldn’t have said that because it’s bad luck.
But he was like, ‘No!
You’re going to crush it.'”
Schwimmer was right; Prinze was able to nail the song.
“I cannot play musical instruments, but I can handle the third-grade recorder.
It was a very good experience and a fun time.
“I don’t know that he was a memorable enough character to make the cut.
Those are my favorite guest stars that they brought in.”
“I watched like everybody else did,” he says.
Younger people love to talk trash about stuff that older people like.
Like, ‘Oh, I didn’t watch that.’
So I’m just like, ‘Nah, it was on forever.
So I’m pretty sure you did.'”
