Lisa Kudrow Urges Warner Bros. New Owner to Preserve the Charm of the Studio After ‘Friends’ and ‘The Comeback’
Amid the impending sale of Warner Bros., actress Lisa Kudrow took a nostalgic walk through the Burbank studio lot, reflecting on her experiences filming there.
While reminiscing about her time on the iconic series Friends, the Emmy-winning actress expressed a heartfelt desire for the new owners to keep the historic lot unchanged. Kudrow became emotional as she recalled recently completing the third and final season of HBO’s The Comeback at the same location.
“It’s hard for me to tell if Warner Bros. is just special to me, or if it’s special to the whole city or industry. I think it is,” she said during an interview with Architectural Digest. “Everything changes ownership all the time and you don’t know what’s going to happen.”
Kudrow continued, emphasizing her hope for preservation: “I think most people really hope whatever happens next is that this studio lot is preserved as is. It works. I mean, we just shot here. Whoever buys it, you don’t need to change anything. It works, it works great. So, congratulations whoever’s next. Please don’t change a thing. Please, please don’t remove Jack Warner’s roses.”
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Kudrow’s plea coincided with a Senate antitrust subcommittee hearing regarding the Netflix-Warner Bros merger, during which the streaming giant expressed its “highly confident” stance on closing the $83 billion deal.
In related developments, new Paramount Skydance owner David Ellison is actively working to derail the Netflix-Warner Bros agreement, seeking to acquire Warner Bros. for his own expanding studio empire.
