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"Friends" co-creatorMarta Kaufman recently talked about the transgender mother of the wrong-gender character Chandler Bing during the show's 10-year run. I apologized in the interview.
She told the BBC in an interview scheduled to air on Monday, "the pronunciation wasn't something I could understand yet." "So we didn't call the character'she'. That was a mistake.
Malta Kaufman is Netflix's Los Angeles Special FYC Participate in the event "Grace And Frankie" at Neue House Los Angeles on April 23, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Jon Kopaloff / Getty Images)
She also regrets calling Elder Bin's character "father" instead of "mother". He said he was.
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"We continued to mention that Chandler's father was Trance, but he told her as Chandler's father," she told the BBC.
In the earlyof the Syndicated Sitcom, the reference to Charles Bin, who gave the drug review heading under the nameHelena Hand Basket, is mostly a one-liner like from the beginning. Chandler (Matthew Perry), who was being driven by a joke, said the 1995 season: "If I changed to my parents, I I became an alcoholic blonde chasing a 20 year old boy. Well, I will end up like my mom. "
But by Season 7, Chandler and Monica Geller (Courtney Cox) are preparing to get married. So they traveled to Las Vegas, met his estranged parents in her drug review and invited her to a wedding.
Actress Kathleen Turner played Chandler's transgender mother, and Morgan Fairchild appeared several times as his biological mother.
Kathleen during the opening night curtain call Turner For "Kathleen Turner: Find My Voice" on December 16, 2021 at Broadway in the City Hall of New York City. Turner played Chandler Bing's transgender mom in "Friends." (Bruce Glikas / Getty Images)
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In the scene between Fairchild and Turner at the Monica and Chandler wedding reception, Turner's character is the Fairchild character's year. He accused him of not being able to wear a low-cut dress because he took too much and made Fairchild fight back. "Isn't there too few penis to wear such a dress?"
At the show, Charles was gay and drug performer, and he never actually used the word transgender.
"People thought Charles was just dressing up," Turner told the character Gay Times.
Cast of "Friends": Lisa Kudrow Is Phoebe Buffet, Matt LeBlanc is Joey Tribbiani, Courteney Cox Arquette is Monica Geller, Matthew Perry is Chandler Bing, Jennifer Aniston is Rachel Green, and David Schwimmer is Ross Geller. (Photo by Reisig& Taylor / NBCU Photo Bank / NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
Turner appears three times in Season 7 Did. In 2001, including the wedding of Monica and Chandler, in 2018 she said she wouldn't have played that role today as a real trance woman could now play it.
Kaufman recently said he had fired someone for joking about a transgender photographer.
"It can't happen," she said.
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Kaufman She also said she regrets that most of them didn't have enough diversity in the White show, so she was "obviously part of the systematic racial discrimination in our business." I admit that.
"I don't know that, so I feel stupid," she said. "It was a very valid and very difficult criticism, but still ... I get emotional."
Kaufman, who also created the show "Grace and Frankie" by Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, said: "There are certain things I would have changed if I knew what I knew now. But I didn't. I don't know them, and I've learned since then."
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She went to her home school last week for $ 4 million I promised to donate. She establishes a professorship donated to the African and African-American Studies Department of Brandyce University, School in the Boston area.
