Associates actress Maggie Wheeler, recognized for her position of Janice Hosenstein and her well-known dialogue, “Oh. My. God,” mirrored on her memorable time on set.
In a latest episode of Nonetheless Right here Hollywood with Steve Kmetko, Wheeler revealed how the crew managed to shock the in-studio and at-home viewers along with her cameos.
The actress instructed the interviewer that for the reason that in-studio viewers was “an necessary attribute” for her entrances the crew would “hold [her] hidden.”
“I wasn’t allowed to even actually wander round craft providers. They made me keep in my dressing room,” she defined.
The scenes the place she used to behave, Wheeler would sneak down on set, and manufacturing workforce would conceal her entrance with black scrim.
“The viewers would not see me till the door opened, and I walked in,” she stated.
The star shared that crew would provide you with many various methods to cover her relying on the scene. “It was all the time an important shock.”
Wheeler recalled the scene the place she acquired essentially the most gasps, howls and laughter, season 5 episode 12, titled The One with Chandler’s Work Chuckle, the place Janice spends the evening with David Schwimmer’s Ross.
“That was an enormous construct up, an enormous secret,” she stated. “No person may have imagined what was occurring, and the solid saved saying [to Ross], ‘The place have been you, the place have been you, the place have been you?’ And so they actually simply milked it till the bitter finish. After which once I walked in, the viewers went nuts.”
Wheeler appeared in each season of Associates, besides the sixth one the place solely her voice was heard. She performed the position of Mathew Perry’s Chandler on-and-off over-the-top New Yorker girlfriend.
