2023-10-29 20:29:26
Starred by the series “Friends”, where he played the vagrant and sensitive Chandler Bing, the American actor spent many years fighting against his addictions and trying, without success, to return to the forefront. He died on Saturday October 28 at the age of 54.
“Hi, I’m Chandler and I make jokes when I’m uncomfortable”: there is no better (self) definition of the sarcastic Chandler Bing in Friends and the death of his interpreter Matthew Perry leaves a gap for every teenager hooked on the comfort series for a decade (1994-2004), the one left behind by one of those imaginary friends that only the sitcom can create and bring to life. Chandler, his vests and shirts too big, but with whom we wanted to hang out, because we all wanted to be funny, acidic but not cynical like Chandler – except David Beckham who admitted to identifying with Monica, in Friends: the Homecoming (2021). We wanted to play Trivial Pursuit with Chandler, not with Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, other more intellectually credible masters of valves. Because it was him, because it was us.
“Friends” and Matthew Perry in Libé
The role of a lifetime, therefore, for Matthew Langford Perry, born in 1969 to an American actor father, John Bennett Perry, and a Canadian journalist mother, Suzanne Morrison, who was the press secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau – his son Justin, Perry’s ex-schoolmate, tweeted that he “will not forget
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