\u201cOwnership changes all the time, and you don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen,\u201d Kudrow said. \u201cI think most people really hope whatever happens next is that this studio lot is preserved as is.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt works,\u201d continued Kudrow, who just finished filming the third and final season of her show The Comeback on the same lot. \u201cI mean, we just shot here. Whoever buys it, you don\u2019t need to change anything! It works great.\u201d <\/p>\n
Netflix is undergoing the DOJ\u2019s approval process<\/a> to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s studio operations, streaming properties, and content library after a hostile bid from Skydance Paramount. \u201cCongratulations, whoever\u2019s next,\u201d Kudrow said, but \u201cPlease don\u2019t change a thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Kudrow, who played Phoebe on Friends for all 10 seasons, has a sentimental connection to the lot\u2014and the now iconic fountain featured in the series\u2019 title sequence. \u201cWe shot the fountain thing, the opening credits, after we shot a show, and it was late, and we were tired. They said it would just be real quick,\u201d she recalled. <\/p>\n \u201cIt was like 3 hours later, and then we\u2019re wet and trying to look happy and dancing and frolicking and yeah, that was tough. But Matthew was so funny,\u201d she added of the late Matthew Perry, who died in 2023<\/a>. \u201cThey\u2019d say, \u2018Alright, we just need to do one more,\u2019 And he\u2019d say, \u2018Oh, are we doing one more, again? We\u2019re just doing one more. Okay, can\u2019t remember a time I wasn\u2019t wet. Can\u2019t remember a time I wasn\u2019t cold.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you see us laughing, it\u2019s because Matthew had just said one of those things,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n The fountain sequence was shot on a backlot in Burbank, but it has since been relocated onto the main Warner Bros. studio lot, where fans can visit during studio tours. The fountain has also appeared in other TV shows and films from the studio, like 1993\u2019s Hocus Pocus<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know if Warner Bros. is just special to me, or if it\u2019s special to the whole city or industry,\u201d Kudrow said after growing emotional, but \u201cI think it is.\u201d <\/p>\n Obsessed with pop culture and entertainment? Follow us on Substack<\/a> and YouTube<\/a> for even more coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friends star Lisa Kudrow would like to see the iconic fountain from the series\u2019 title sequence remain on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,25027,61,60,33663,282,2031],"class_list":{"0":"post-283147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-friends","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-lisa-kudrow","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-warner-bros"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cast](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4BP2UQLK5BAGFNBUIJLAGHLGYI.jpg\")
Kudrow says she hopes whichever company wins Warner Bros. will leave the studio’s iconic fountain alone. Getty Images\/Getty Images <\/p>\n![\"Actors](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/QF5YREHF3VLVBN2LFWDOLW2MJE.jpg\")
Kudrow recalled her memory of Matthew Perry the day the “Friends” cast filmed the show’s title sequence. Paul Archuleta\/Getty <\/p>\n