Aisha Tyler has shared recollections about auditioning for Associates in 2003 on iHeartRadio’s And That’s What You REALLY Missed podcast.
“By the point I auditioned for Associates, I had seen each episode of Associates — like each single one,” she stated. “Which didn’t make me assured. It simply made me know, nicely, I understand how to inform a Associates joke. However like, am I gonna do it nicely?”
Studying with David Schwimmer for the a part of his character Ross’s girlfriend, Charlie Wheeler, was “intimidating,” she stated, regardless that Schwimmer himself was “beautiful.”
When she landed the function, Tyler stated she was purported to do 4 episodes. However she ended up filming 9.
“On the finish, it’s very very like theater, you do a curtain name, then everyone bows,” she defined. “You’re ready within the wings, they usually’ll introduce the visitor stars, after which they’ll introduce the primary solid. So, I’d be one of many final individuals that might exit earlier than the primary solid.”
She went on to share a candy Matthew Perry reminiscence from her first episode: “Proper earlier than I went out on the finish of my first taping, Matthew Perry leaned in and stated, ‘Prepare on your life to alter.’”
Tyler hasn’t forgotten his phrases.
“It was simply such a candy, beneficiant factor to say,” she stated. “It wasn’t like, ‘Uh-oh.’ He was like, ‘That is thrilling. It’s gonna be thrilling for you.’ And I by no means forgot that second as a result of it actually did change my life.”