Unlike other TV comics of his generation, the late Friends actor could never transfer his small-screen fame to cinema – the film industry was the worse for it
r Doug Ross from TV’s ER made it in the movies. Wisecracking, balding private detective David Addison from TV’s Moonlighting made it in the movies. West Philadelphia-born-and-raised-kid Will Smith in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air made it in the movies.
So yes. With a bit more luck, Perry could have had Jesse Eisenberg’s career, playing Mark Zuckerberg and Lex Luthor, writing witty stories for the New Yorker and McSweeney’s. All of the Friends cast were superb at delivering gags, playing physical comedy and getting studio audience laughs .
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