Maggie Wheeler performed Mathew Perry’s Chandler’s on-and-off girlfriend Janice in ‘Buddies’
Buddies actress Maggie Wheeler, recognized for her position of Janice Hosenstein and her well-known dialogue, “Oh. My. God,” mirrored on her memorable time on set.
In a current episode of Nonetheless Right here Hollywood with Steve Kmetko, Wheeler revealed how the crew managed to shock the in-studio and at-home viewers along with her cameos.
The actress instructed the interviewer that for the reason that in-studio viewers was “an important characteristic” for her entrances the crew would “keep [her] hidden.”
“I wasn’t allowed to even really wander around craft services. They made me stay in my dressing room,” she defined.
The scenes the place she used to behave, Wheeler would sneak down on set, and manufacturing crew would conceal her entrance with black scrim.
“The audience wouldn’t see me until the door opened, and I walked in,” she stated.
The star shared that crew would provide you with many various methods to cover her relying on the scene. “It was always a great surprise.”
Wheeler recalled the scene the place she acquired probably the most gasps, howls and laughter, season 5 episode 12, titled The One with Chandler’s Work Chuckle, the place Janice spends the evening with David Schwimmer’s Ross.
“That was a huge build up, a huge secret,” she stated. “Nobody could have imagined what was going on, and the cast kept saying [to Ross], ‘Where were you, where were you, where were you?’ And they really just milked it until the bitter end. And then when I walked in, the audience went nuts.”
Wheeler appeared in each season of Buddies, besides the sixth one the place solely her voice was heard. She performed the position of Mathew Perry’s Chandler on-and-off over-the-top New Yorker girlfriend.
