Paget Brewster’s first big role came as the recurring character Kathy in Season 4 of “Friends.” Throughout her six episode arc, she dated both Joey (Matt LeBlanc), whom she met at acting class, and Chandler (Matthew Perry), who she got to know after a random coffee shop encounter. Unfortunately, she more or less left both of them heartbroken. As she told AV Club, she was “terrified” for the audition, especially when she saw “three devastatingly beautiful young women” — and Perry himself — at the meeting. “This was my first job in L.A. that I thought I might get, and suddenly I was going, ‘I’m never going to get this,'” she said. “I went, ‘Clearly, I’m your runty alternate, so let’s get this show on the road!’ And Matthew said that was it.”
Her black bob, she told the outlet, was key to advancing the series’ plot, as Chandler fell for the similar-looking Monica after Kathy’s exit. “Friends” super fans might be interested to know the hair and makeup team originally planned for her to have red hair, until show co-producer Kevin Bright caught wind of it. “[He] started screaming,’ ‘I hired her because she had a black bob! You can’t do this,'” she recalled. “I just went upstairs, I put my magazines in my bag, and I just sat there and waited, like, ‘I lost my best job I’ve ever gotten.'” Thankfully, a quick dye back was all it took to solidify her spot.
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