Actor Tom Selleck shared that he was “scared to death” when he was a guest-star in popular sitcom “Friends” and opened up that his co-star Courteney Cox who was also his on-screen girlfriend in the show helped a lot.
In 1995, the “Blue Bloods” actor was introduced in Friends, joining his co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and Courtney Cox. Tom Selleck played the character of Dr Richard Burke who was boyfriend of Cox’s character of Monica Geller.
Tom Selleck opened up during an interview on The Kelly Clarkson Show, telling, “The hardest thing is to guest on a show. I try to relax the new actors because that’s really hard to come on a show where everybody’s up to speed. I was scared to death. I had done an episode of ‘Taxi’ a long time before, but I hadn’t done a sitcom. And so, I was really nervous.”
But, Selleck added that Courtney Cox was a “big help” who welcomed him into the Friends world and the actors of the 90s sitcom are a friendship group in real life in addition to being buddies in the series. The “Jesse Stone” actor said, “Courtney helped a lot. Courtney’s a big help. But that group’s an incredible group of friends. They obviously became friends in life as well as on the show. And it shows. It was a wonderful place to work.”
Initially, Tom was to only appear as a guest star in Friends but in addition to being the boyfriend of one of the most beloved characters of the sitcom (Monica Geller), he also made nine appearances from 1995-2000.
