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Matthew Perry shared how much he and his colleagues contributed. Friends In his new memoir, earned over the years from the show, Friends, lovers, and the big scary thing.
The actor played the goofy and lovable Chandler for nearly a decade on the popular sitcom. Friends Which premiered in 1994. VarietyPerry earned $22,500 from the pilot episode but went on to make nearly a million dollars a week.
Perry credits her costar David Schwimmer, who helped the rise when he could by not asking for more money for himself.
“It was a decision that turned out to be extremely profitable,” Perry wrote. “David was certainly in a position to take as much money as possible, and he didn’t. I’d like to think I would have done the same, but as a greedy twenty-five-year-old, I’m not sure I would. I will do that.”
“But his decision forced us to take care of each other through countless stressful network negotiations, and it gave us a lot of strength,” he added. By the eighth season, we were making a million dollars per episode. By season ten we were making even more. We were making $1,100,040 an episode, and we were asking to do fewer episodes.
The actor, 53, then jovially said, “Morons, all of us. We had David’s kindness, and his business sense, to thank for what was offered to us. David, I almost miss you. 30 million dollars in debt. (We were still stupid.)