She had a different challenge on the set of the low-budget film The Opposite Sex. In one scene, Courteney is at the beach with some friends, and one of the guys is sculpting breasts out of sand. She would get to that point and then gesture at the nipple region. Cox points at her plate and we both see the hair there, like a prop in a Seinfeld episode. If there s a hair on my food, I m one of those people who will eat the food anyway.
Success helps one deal with minor annoyances.
With the enormous appeal of Friends, Cox wouldn t be bothered if Burt Reynold s rug were on her plate. The freshman sitcom spent most of 1995 in the top ten and shot as high as number one. Friends, like Mad About You and Seinfeld, features enough pop philosophizing by the first commercial break to eclipse the oeuvre of Dr. Joyce Brothers. Add the show's ensemble approach, and the result is an Algonquin roundtable of 20-something angst. In real life, you could more easily find Casper than six perfectly coiffed, attractively neurotic, facile white people who happen to be bosom buddies.