Throughout 10 seasons, including 236 episodes, “Friends” dominated television as one of the most popular sitcoms in history. The daily life of Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Monica (Courteney Cox), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Joey (Matt Leblanc), Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Ross (David Schwimmer) were a fixation of the life of viewers, that it is original, from Strucine Reches, jumping from Netflix to HBO Max, Serving comfort for young adults crossing similar tests and tribulations of the characters. The success of “friends”, especially in streaming, has led all the services competing in pursuing a taste of this success, despite the fact that the medium is not built to find the next “friends”, but rather to kill it.
Without a doubt, a large part of the success of “friends” can be attributed to its main distribution. Admittedly, while the New York Sets series remains a product of its time and, according to today’s standards, does not play a set of color characters in its main distribution, millions of people always hold the six friends near their hearts. Their collective chemistry remains among the most palpable never televised and, according to the antenna, “Friends: The Reunion” led more new subscriptions to HBO Max during its opening weekend than the new outings of Warner Bros. Pictures that year. It is difficult to imagine all the other actors who could have given life to these beloved friends, but an actor who played an important recurring guest role played Ross Geller before David Schwimmer was thrown away – Mitchell Whitfield.
Mitchell Whitfield played Rachel’s ex-fiancé, Dr. Barry Farber,
In an alternative reality, Mitchell Whitfield would have played Ross Geller, the older brother Geek de Monica and another significant Rachel from all over the decade. In an interview with The Guardian, Whitfield thought about the hearing for “Friends” during the three -month pilot season, in which many actors from Chicago and New York would move to Los Angeles to audition television pilots. Whitfield obtained the “Friends” script halfway from the pilot season, immediately calling for his agent to actively continue the role:
“I was led to audition for Ross and Chandler. I returned several times, then they realized that Ross was the role for me. I went to the very end, and I tested the show. At the last minute, they said:” We bring another guy to read. “This guy turned out to be David Schwimmer. ‘”
In the end, David Schwimmer would be interpreted as Ross, a recently divorced paleontologist who returned to his high school crush, Rachel Green, after his return to his life at the Central Perk Coffee Shop, putting on a wedding dress after leaving her Fiancé, Dr. Barry Farber, in the altar. This would end up being the role that Mitchell Whitfield was interpreted as, appearing as the orthodontist character in five episodes: three of which were in season 1, and the last two of the seasons 2 and 6, respectively. Whitfield shared its awareness that the series was going to be a success after its initial appearances:
“Towards the end of the first season, I started to make people say:” Oh, you are this dry. ‘”
What Mitchell Whitfield hopes that Dr. Barry Farber is until today
Mitchell Whitfield shared his reflections on the place where Dr. Barry Farber’s life would be more than a decade after the conclusion of the series. In a 2019 interview with “The Today Show”, Whitfield shared that he has an optimistic opinion for Barry, who, according to Rachel, ended up divorce in his last appearance after his wife, Mindy (Jana Marie Hupp), learned his infidelity. Whitfield hopes that his character has learned from his mistakes:
“I would like to think that he always has his dental practice as a point of view of coherence. I think he probably gets rid of his life, no longer with Mindy, and just in a way trying to find the right person who corresponds to his clumsy and clumsy style.”
In addition to his recurring role of guests on “Friends”, Mitchell Whitfield has led an impressive career as an actor who works. Her numerous television roles include appearances on “Murder, she wrote”, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and “Curb your enthusiasm”. As for film credits, its most notable role was as Stan Rothenstein in “My Cousin Vinny”. Whitfield has also lent his voice to many animation projects, including the 2007 “TMNT” film as Donatello, and “Transformers: Robots in Disguise” by Cartoon Network as Fixit.
The complete series of “Friends”, as well as “Friends: The Reunion”, is available to broadcast exclusively on HBO Max.
