David Schwimmer said he once had to take a break from listening to the Friends theme song.
The actor who played Ross Geller on the beloved sitcom recently appeared on Matt Lucas and David Walliams’ Making a Scene podcast, where she confessed that he never again wanted to hear, “So no one told you life was gonna be this way…” at one point after the show ended.
“I never watched the show after we finished it,” the actor explained. “For me, it’s like, I did it, I’m moving on. I don’t really go back and revisit.”
“I’ll be really honest, there was a time for quite a while that just hearing the theme song would really…” Schwimmer added, trying to find the right words to describe the feeling before he just let out a sigh. “You know what I mean? I just had that reaction. I mean, I just had heard it so many times.”
In response, Lucas quipped, “Well, no one told you life was going to be that way,” referencing the theme song’s opening line.
“Correct, thank you,” Schwimmer responded. “And any time you’d go on a show or a talk show or an interview, that would be your intro song. So I just didn’t have the greatest response to it for a period of time.”
However, Schwimmer said his perspective changed once his daughter, whom he shares with ex-wife Zoë Buckman, “discovered it around age nine” and started watching the show.
“I’d be making breakfast or whatever and I’d hear my kid’s laughter,” the Goosebumps actor recalled. “My whole relationship to that song and to the show changed again.”
Friends, which ran for 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004, followed the personal and professional lives of six young adult friends living in New York City. The sitcom also starred Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and the late Matthew Perry.
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