"The LGBTQ+ advocate was speaking to People about her latest film, Caught Stealing, which is set in 1998. "If you watch Friends now, you're like, 'Whoa, that's...', she said, surprising co-star and Yves St Laurent model Austin Butler, who asked: Wow, even in Friends? Kravitz responded: "Oh, so much in Friends. Like, things that aren't punchlines are punchlines. It's wild. We can keep that there." Elvis star Butler agreed, saying: "Yeah, keep that in the '90s.""
"In 2019, series creator Marta Kauffman said that Chandler Bing's parent, Helena, played by Kathleen Turner, was a trans woman, despite repeatedly being referred to her as "Chandler's dad" in the script. "We didn't have the knowledge about transgender people back then, so I'm not sure if we used the appropriate terms," Kauffmann said. Meanwhile, Romancing the Stone star Turner would turn down the role if offered it today, saying "Of course I wouldn't do it now because there would be real people able to do it.""
"Five years ago, Lisa Kudrow, who played Phoebe, defended the sitcom's depictions of gender and sexuality, telling The Sunday Times: "This show thought it was very progressive. There was a guy whose wife discovered she was gay and pregnant, and they raised the child together. We had surrogacy too. It was, at the time, progressive." However, if the show was created now, it would be "completely different", she admitted."
Zoë Kravitz criticized homophobic elements in 1990s television, citing Friends as an example where non-punchline moments were treated as punchlines. The comment arose while discussing her film Caught Stealing, set in 1998, and prompted agreement from co-star Austin Butler who said those attitudes should remain in the past. Creators and cast have acknowledged problematic storylines: Marta Kauffman noted limited knowledge about transgender people at the time, Kathleen Turner said she would decline the role today, and Lisa Kudrow defended some progressive elements but conceded the show would be different if made now.
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