Lisa Kudrow Reveals the Friends Scene That She ‘Teared Up’ Watching for the First Time

Kudrow added that she’s afraid of what her “take-away” might be from certain episodes. She cited the season 10 episode in which her character, Phoebe Buffay, marries boyfriend Mike (Paul Rudd).

“I actually — when Phoebe got married, and she’s walking down the aisle and has this huge smile on her face, I teared up because she was so happy,” Kudrow, 61, recalled. “She was so just, like, honestly happy, and it was just — I don’t know. It was really touching to me. Like, she deserves to be this happy.”

Earlier in their conversation, Ferguson and Kudrow noted that the character is in many ways tragic, coming from a broken home and having experience homelessness — not to mention her strained relationship with “evil” twin sister Ursula. Yet Kudrow managed to make Phoebe one of the sunniest and funniest of the show’s oddballs.

“To me, what was funny — what would be funny — about that is a person who just treats it all like, you know, it’s not just me. Can’t take it personally. It happens to everybody,” Kudrow said of her approach to the character.

Friends is available to stream in full on Max.