Matthew Perry Reveals The ‘Friends’ Cast’s True Salaries: We Were ‘Morons’ To End The Show

Matthew Perry, 53, revealed the existent salaries helium and his Friends co-stars made implicit the years, successful his caller memoir, Friends, Lovers, & the Big Terrible Thing, which was released connected Tuesday. The actor, who played Chandler for 10 years connected the fashionable sitcom, which premiered successful 1994, claimed helium earned $22,500 for the aviator occurrence and it accrued to implicit $1 cardinal per episodes for the formed by the bid end, according to Variety. He besides reportedly claimed that his erstwhile castmate, David Schwimmer, is the 1 who helped with the summation by not asking for much wealth for himself.

“It was a determination that proved to beryllium highly lucrative down the line. David had surely been successful a presumption to spell for the astir money, and helium didn’t,” Matthew wrote, the outlet reported. “I would similar to deliberation that I would person made the aforesaid move, but arsenic a greedy twenty-five-year-old, I’m not definite I would have. But his determination served to marque america instrumentality attraction of each different done what turned retired to beryllium a myriad of stressful web negotiations, and it gave america a tremendous magnitude of power.”

The ‘Friends’ cast. (Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection)

“By play eight, we were making a cardinal dollars per episode; by play 10 we were making adjacent more,” helium continued. “We were making $1,100,040 an episode, and we were asking to bash less episodes. Morons, each of us. We had David’s goodness, and his astute concern sense, to convey for what we had been offered.”

“I beryllium you astir $30 million, David. (We were inactive morons),” helium cheekily added. Matthew besides reportedly talked astir the salaries helium made for immoderate of his films. They included $1 cardinal for the romanticist comedy, Fools Rush In, and $2 cardinal for the 1998 comedy, Almost Heroes.

Matthew during a erstwhile appearance. (Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)

He besides reportedly touched connected immoderate of the offers helium received for different tv shows. He was seemingly initially offered $50,000 an occurrence for his relation successful the 2006 series, Studio 60 connected the Sunset Strip, but his squad was capable to summation his complaint to $175,000. He besides reportedly revealed his Friends co-star, Matt LeBlanc was making $600,000 an occurrence for the Friends spinoff series, Joey.

Other topics Matthew reportedly goes into item astir successful his publication see his years-long conflict with drugs and alcohol, a drunken enactment nonaccomplishment arsenic a teen, and however helium erstwhile allegedly “beat up” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arsenic a kid aft his ma started moving for Justin’s father, Pierre Trudeau, who was the Prime Minister of Canada astatine the time. On the time of the release, Matthew took to Instagram to stock a video astir the publication and revealed however “excited” helium was for radical to work it, successful the caption.

“Today is the day! #FriendsLoversBook is yet here. I’m truthful excited that I yet get to stock my communicative with you! It has been a meaningful acquisition for maine and I anticipation you find immoderate meaning successful it too. To acquisition a transcript today, caput to the nexus successful my bio,” the caption read.