{"id":369490,"date":"2026-04-01T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/369490\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:11:09","slug":"why-matt-leblanc-stepped-away-from-acting-after-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/369490\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Matt LeBlanc Stepped Away From Acting After &#8216;Friends&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned, Matt has been incredibly open about his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/stephaniesoteriou\/friends-matt-leblanc-praised-for-love-of-doing-nothing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">love of doing \u201cnothing.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Back in 2011, he said on\u00a0The Graham Norton Show, \u201cI hate to say it, my mom probably won\u2019t be too proud, but my favorite thing to do is absolutely nothing. I would sit on the couch forever if you let me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/stephaniesoteriou\/friends-matt-leblanc-praised-for-love-of-doing-nothing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reiterated<\/a>\u00a0that his \u201cfavorite\u201d thing to do is \u201cnothing.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m great at it. I should be a professional nothing. Because it\u2019s so easy, there\u2019s no rules! What are you gonna do today? I\u2019ll tell you: Nothing, pretty simple,\u201d he quipped during an appearance on the Scandinavian TV show\u00a0Skavlan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As mentioned, Matt has been incredibly open about his\u00a0love of doing \u201cnothing.\u201d\u00a0Back in 2011, he said on\u00a0The Graham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46,4054,411,4055,7269],"class_list":{"0":"post-369490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-timely","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-tv-shows","15":"tag-womens-content"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}