One of the Friends was expecting a happy event during season 4 of the cult series: Phoebe. The latter agrees to be the surrogate mother of her half-brother Frank, madly in love with Alice, who is 30 years older than him. A plot that was not thought up randomly.
This is undoubtedly one of the best-known anecdotes of Friends but a booster shot never hurts. As you probably know, Phoebe agrees to carry her half-brother Frank’s child in the fourth season. An ingenious idea since Lisa Kudrow had actually become pregnant during the filming of season 4. And it was unthinkable for the writers to lose one of her Friends for several episodes.
An incredible idea to keep Phoebe in Friends
There are series which decide to hide the pregnancy of their actresses, and others which decide purely and simply to include them. This is the case of Friends who assumed the happy event of Lisa Kudrow on screen. In 1998, the actress was expecting her son Julian and the writers were therefore forced to find a logical plot so that Phoebe, then single, could become pregnant so as not to hide Lisa Kudrow’s pregnancy.
That’s when they decided that she would become Frank’s surrogate mother and for the record, she still had to wear a false belly in order to have that of a woman expecting triplets… whereas Lisa Kudrow was already pregnant! Her character therefore gives birth during the 100th episode, and undoubtedly one of the most memorable of Friends. This is also why Phoebe stayed in New York while the others went to London. The actress could not take the plane because she was waiting for a happy event.
Phoebe’s pregnancy in season 4 of Friends now has no more secrets for you.
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