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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought the reunion was cringey. [b]And Matthew Perry looked drunk - not just the slur but the empty gaze.[/b] [/quote]

No way he wasn't on something. He slurred in the interviews as well. You could see the other two guys were a little nervous/uncomfortable about him when it was just the three of them. He made some inappropriate jokes, was slurring, gazing ahead with an empty gaze, slow response time (a full beat behind the others). If you pay attention to the reunion, he hardly said anything. Some was probably cut to keep his participation minimal. Poor guy did not seem up to this at all. It was pretty awful to see.[/quote]

It was awful to see and also awful that he presumably showed up on set in that condition and every one of his cast mates and the producers said, “let’s carry on with filming”. He shouldn’t have been on the show in that condition and it’s sad that his costars - supposes buddies - were complicit in pretending there was nothing wrong. [/quote]

What’s your suggestion?  They have the entire cast present, the sets are ready, the crew is ready, the additional people are ready to appear by “Zoom” (or whatever, including camera crews at their homes, etc. all this money and hype is poured into this and contracts and deadlines are in place. What’s your idea as to what to do when someone appears to work?  
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Um, yes. It’s possible to pause a production if a cast member isn’t well; they have insurance for that. Or you send an intoxicated cast member home and carry on without them. This absolutely can be done but in this instance people clearly cared more about the “optics” and the money than an obviously sick person involved.  Also these people are all very rich. The result was that Perry looked sad and under the influence and the whole show was cringe inducing. [/quote]

I disagree. For a film or TV set, sure. For a reunion special where it’s not required to be any specific way (audience members won’t be lost because of it, it will probably actually increase viewership, doesn’t affect the storyline, doesn’t impact the other actors, etc), the shoe was going to go on. [/quote]

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