{"id":369092,"date":"2026-01-14T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369092\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:50:13","slug":"luton-actor-never-saw-friends-before-landing-musical-parody-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369092\/","title":{"rendered":"Luton actor never saw Friends before landing musical parody role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;It had been on in the background maybe a couple times, but I&#8217;d never watched it myself, so I didn&#8217;t know much about the actual role of Joey.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The actor now realises that, like Joey, he is also an actor chasing auditions and a &#8220;class clown&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite now living in Kempston, Bedfordshire, Joey&#8217;s Italian-American accent was not an enormous leap either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Not only did he get experience when he took part in productions of Bugsy Malone, but his Greek heritage meant directors often cast him in Italian American roles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;So from a kid I was always doing Italian American accents&#8230; That accent just falls naturally to me, and it&#8217;s a fun accent.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added: &#8220;It had been on in the background maybe a couple times, but I&#8217;d never watched it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-369092","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}