NBC's Friends holds a special place within our hearts. Sodo all of its characters, primary and secondary. Marcel, the monkey is aside character that we all love. He's not a human but an animal. In season 1, The One With The Monkey, Marcel was first seenas DavidSwimer.
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Ross complained about his experience working withcapuchins during the Friends reunion episode. Mike Morris, the animalhandler has slammed Ross for being bitter towards animals. (For those notaware, Marcel was played by Katie and Monkey by two capuchin monkeys). He called Schwimmer " despicable."
Mike Morris, a member of Friends' David, spoke out in an interview with TheSun about comments he made regarding Marcel during HBO Max’s Friends reunionspecial. Ross saidthat he did five episodes, and the first two episodes were with David Schwimmer. He seemed to be a bit bitterafter that.
He said, "I think David Schwimmer probably had sometrouble with the monkey. It's just my opinion." He was very friendly withthe monkey for the first few episodes. The monkey started to get a lot morelaughs after that. It could have beenthrowing him off, or [he] was getting jealous. I don't know. I think it was one of these two.
Mike Morris said that the monkeys were able to get alongwith other Friends, namely Jennifer Aniston or Matt LeBlanc. He stated, "We hadhad to rehearse together with the monkey alone and then [Schwimmer] wouldn'tcome in and it would be different, so it made things harder."
David Schwimmer was called 'despicable' by the animalhandler. "The other capuchin that played Marcel was Monkey. He diedrecently from cancer. So Schwimmer was talking ill about the dead when he made these comments [in the reunion]. It is a shame that he continues to speak ill about her.
Friends Schwimmer, for the uninitiated, recalled hisexperiences working with animals during the Friends reunion special. He stated, "I loveanimals. I love primates. I don't have anything against animals. I love animals. Here was the problem. Itwas a trained monkey, so it had to do its job correctly. But, what wouldhappen? We would choreograph bits of timed out and then the monkey would mess up. We'd need to start over because themonkey failed to do its job right.
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