
Who is dedicated to Dorothy Kauffman from friends for This episode is dedicated to Dorothy Kauffman, Marta Kauffmans mother. In 2015, she criticised the Friends actors for taking £700,000 (1million) per episode.

It’s just people acknowledging it was long overdue. Marta Kauffman: £283.2m (400m) Without writing buddy Crane, shes had success with Netflix dramas and documentaries. I’ve gotten a lot of ‘It’s about time.’ Not in a mean way. I’ve gotten a flood of emails and texts and posts that have been nothing but supportive. Brian Benben, Chris Demetral, Denny Dillon, Wendie Malick. David Crane (Creador), Marta Kauffman (Creador), Betty Thomas. Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer. It surprised me to some extent, because I didn’t expect the news to go this wide. David Crane (Creador), Marta Kauffman (Creador), Gary Halvorson.
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She wanted the series to be aspirational. She added of the $4-million pledge, “In this case, I’m finally, literally putting my money where my mouth is.”Īs for how the donation is being received, Kauffman said, “I’ve gotten nothing but love. Marta Kauffman, co-creator of Friends and Grace and Frankie, had the goal of showing life through the lens of being an older woman and what that means. And I also don’t know how we could have addressed it in that context of that reunion, going into all the things we did wrong. 1 Both Kauffman and Crane were also executive producers of the show, along with Kevin Bright. She is best known as the co-creator of the NBC sitcom Friends with her longtime friend, David Crane. Some had criticized last year’s “Friends” reunion special for not addressing the criticism, but Kauffman said, “I don’t know how the two were related. Marta Fran Kauffman (born September 21, 1956) is an American television writer and producer. ‘Friends’ Co-Creator Marta Kauffman Blames ‘My Own Ignorance’ For The Show’s Lack Of Diversity “That was really the moment that I began to examine the ways I had participated. “It was after what happened to George Floyd that I began to wrestle with my having bought into systemic racism in ways I was never aware of,” she said. The project reunites Raphael with Kauffman after her run as a series. What inspired Kauffman’s change of mindset on the issue was the reckoning over racism and police violence against Black people in recent years. Friends Co-creator Marta Kauffman on the Reunion, the Characters Lives Now, and Implausible Fan Theories Guess which of the couples would be in therapy. The project hails from Grace and Frankie creator Marta Kauffman through her Okay Goodnight banner and Lionsgate Television. I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know better 25 years ago. It’s painful looking at yourself in the mirror. “Admitting and accepting guilt is not easy. “I’ve learned a lot in the last 20 years,” she explained. Writer Marta Kauffman and attorney Gloria Allred attend the 'Seeing Allred' Premiere during the 2018 Sundance Film Festival at The Marc Theatre on. That shift led her to recently pledge $4 million to Brandeis University, her alma mater, to establish an endowed professorship in the school’s African and African-American studies department. ‘Friends’ Co-Creator Marta Kauffman Gets Emotional As She Admits ‘I Didn’t Do Enough’ To Promote Diversity On The Showĭespite feeling for years that the criticism unfairly singled “Friends” out, calling it “difficult and frustrating,” Kauffman’s perspective has shifted in recent years. In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, co-creator Marta Kauffman addressed the decades of criticism the classic sitcom received for its lack of diversity among its leads. The woman behind “Friends” is trying to make things right. Lisa Kudrow recently opened up about Friends' lack of diversity on the show, and David Schwimmer also shared that he campaigned for his character Ross to date women of color."Friends" - Photo: Warner Bros. “That has been the hardest pill for me to swallow, is that I’m part of that group,” she shared. She continued, “I mean we’ve always encouraged people of diversity in our company, but I didn’t do enough and now all I can think about is what can I do? What can I do differently? How can I run my show in a new way? And that’s something I not only wish I knew when I started showrunning, but I wish I knew all the way up through last year.”ĭuring the same panel, Julie Plec, who was the showrunner for The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, recognized she was also part of the problem. I would’ve made very different decisions.” “Sorry, I just wish I knew then what I know now. "I wish I knew then what I know today,” Marta shared, while getting tearing up. The Friends and Grace and Frankie co-creator opened up during the virtual 2020 ATX Festival about not doing enough. Marta Kauffman is reflecting on her past mistakes of not being diverse enough on her hit shows and in her career.
