Brooke Shields talks about her funny time on Friends

“I ran really fast from one end of the set to the other and threw myself on the floor and pretended to look under his pants…”

For the famous 1996 Super Bowl episode, Friends offered a whole bunch of guest stars, with Chris Isaak, Julia Roberts, Jean-Claude Van Damme and also Brooke Shields. The model and actress plays Erika, a crazy fan of Joey who confuses fiction and reality.

And Brooke Shields confided to the show The View that she did much the same thing in real life: desperately trying to become friends with the actors of Friendsshe acted crazy during filming. To the point where not everyone understood. She says:

“Friends is a show that was perfectly oiled. I was a huge fan and all I wanted was for them to like me. I just wanted to be funny, for them to find me funny. Except I didn't wasn't part of the group actually. They were very close. They had all these jokes between them.”

And then Brooke Shields noticed this gag that Matthew Perry on the board. “It wouldn't be possible to do this today without getting canceled, but Matthew would run and throw himself on the ground in front of a girl and pretend to look up her skirt…”

So, to try to fit in, Brooke Shields tried to reproduce the joke: “I ran very quickly from one end of the set to the other and threw myself on the floor and pretended to look under his pants… And then, there was total silence in the studio. I was there on the floor and I was like, “I suck!” I look like a crazy person! »

Brooke Shields admits to feeling like the awkward moment lasted forever. “And then all of a sudden, Matthew started laughing and they all started laughing. He asked me, “How did you get the idea to do that?” » And I told him it was just a way of thanking him for making me laugh so much.”

The little moment of madness still had consequences for the actress: “The carpet I threw myself on burned my knees all over!”