Oh! My! Gawd! Maggie Wheeler a.k.a Janice Revealed an Alternate 'Friends' Storyline (EXCLUSIVE)

What is Janice from ‘Friends’ doing now? 'Distractify' spoke with Maggie Wheeler about her role as Janice and her courting with Chandler.

There’s no line more memorable in Friends than “Oh. My. Gawd,” delivered through the one and most effective Janice Litman-Goralnik née Hosenstein. Portrayed by way of Maggie Wheeler, Janice became a feminist icon as a woman who is unafraid to be herself while courting the hilarious Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry).

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And in doing so, now not only did we get to be informed about find out how to make our very personal Central Perk-style Mocha Manhattan, with their creamer, which could also be to be had in a Zero Sugar selection, but we also were given a peek behind the scenes at Maggie’s days on Friends and what she’s prior to now.

Now, Maggie Wheeler, who played Janice on ‘Friends,’ is working on many inventive initiatives.

“It's obviously been a difficult time for everyone these pandemic years but it is been an excessively inventive time for me,” Maggie stated exclusively to Distractify. “I've been doing a large number of on-line work with other people and am simply making the best of a hard scenario. I've got a number of tasks arising in the new yr and I'm fascinated about that.”

She dished that a few of the ones initiatives come with a youngsters’s e book, operating within the impartial film world, and extra as she sat within the iconic purple condominium.

We concept it was once a Zoom background, but she was once actually there! “I’m here on the Friends revel in [in NYC]... within the woman's apartment. It's implausible to be right here. It's so reminiscent. I really like when I am getting to stroll back into the set, whether it's right here or at Warner Brothers. It simply takes me proper back.”

Janice and Chandler didn’t finally end up in combination, but there was an alternate truth by which they may have.

So much of Janice comes from her interactions with Chandler. In fact, the first time we meet Janice, Chandler is attempting to get a divorce with her in Season 1. And that’s where Janice’s iconic snort comes from. “The laugh was once actually born out of this fantastic moment with Matthew, where he's serving the coffee at Central Park and he used to be so humorous,” Maggie said of her time on set.

“We had been in practice session and he is simply tossing back one coffee after some other. And he brings me this large coffee and earlier than I've even had a possibility to take a sip of it, he says, ‘Do you want any other?’ And I just knew, rehearsing it, he was once so funny. And I believed if I don't have a laugh as Janice, I'm going to be in trouble. So that is why I made up that loopy chortle.” And now, the world will never be the similar. Imagine a global without Janice’s snigger? We don’t wish to.

Of direction, we all know now thanks to Matthew Perry’s memoir and honesty that he struggled with dependancy throughout his time on Friends. “I did read his memoir,” Maggie said. “I'm very grateful that his management sent it to me. I learn it from cover to cover, and I'm really pleased with him. I'm amazed by what he's persevered and the way he's survived it, and that he's out there being so brave and so vocal about his reports, and I know he is serving to a lot of folks by means of doing that.”

While many people have likely heard tales about Matthew on set, Maggie reiterated the sheer indisputable fact that he’s “good.” She stated, “Working with him was once this type of present. As a comedic actress, it’s simply so improbable to paintings with any individual whose timing is so sensible. We fell into it so naturally, and I feel that is why Janice saved coming again.

“Obviously, he went thru some tough occasions, however he all the time confirmed up for work. And he at all times confirmed up to do his job, even in the worst of occasions. So even when we have been nervous about him, he was once able to go when the cameras have been rolling and we could still make folks chortle,” she reminisced. But that’s now not desirous about Maggie and Matthew’s tale.

Maggie did pitch some way for Janice and Chandler to have an eternal bond. “By the tip of the first season, I was pregnant with my first daughter. And I went to Marta [Kauffman] and David [Crane] on the wrap celebration and I said, ‘Look, I have to inform you something, I'm pregnant. So if you wish to write Chandler and Janice's love kid into the following season, I'm there,’ and that was the end of that.”

We sadly never saw a Jandler love child, however we did get to see the glance on Chandler’s face when he noticed a pregnant Janice, and it was unforgettable, just like Janice.

Friends is these days available to circulate on HBO Max.

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