I hate that I never started watching ‘The Good Wife’. I know it’s amazing, I’ve heard all about it. I just never started, and now I’m so far behind I don’t have it in me to catch up! I might have a reason to start, however, because Matthew Perry is joining the cast!
The Friends star will play an attorney from Chicago named Mike who’s heading up a blue ribbon panel in charge of investigating a police shooting. While Mike is described as “ultra-charming,” he won’t have an easy time winning over Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies), who thinks his interest is more political than truth-seeking.
“No one skates as effortlessly between drama and comedy as Matthew Perry, so we’re especially thrilled to have him on the show,” Good Wife co-creators and exec producers Robert and Michelle King told EW in a statement. “We’re huge, huge fans, and are nearly giddy over what he can do with the role.”
The role marks Perry’s first significant part in a TV drama since Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip six years ago. Before that, Perry had several guest appearances on NBC’s The West Wing. His most recent TV gig was the ABC sitcom Mr. Sunshine.
Though Perry has signed on as a recurring character, it’s not yet clear how many episodes he’ll appear in. He’ll make his Good Wife debut on Sunday, March 25.
I know this is a really terrible picture of him…. but it’s also sooooooo good. I couldn’t pass it up.
Friends star Matthew Perry is putting his L.A. home back on the market, listing his elaborate Sunset Strip property at $5.7 million. It looks like Matthew is getting rid of his unnecessary digs seeing as how it’s just been weeks after he listed his beachfront Malibu estate for $13.5 million.
As far as the Sunset Strip property goes, it’s listed as such:
The impressive mid-century two-level home – which has three bedrooms and three-and-a-half bathrooms – has over 3,600 square feet of living space and expansive outdoor areas.
All rooms have amazing views which span from downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Ocean.
The main living area has a log burning fireplace, built-in plasma screen TV and sliding glass walls which open out onto the home’s pool area and the property has lots of glass and white washed walls making it incredibly light.
The actor reportedly plaid $1.7 million for the home in 2006, so tyhat means he’s looking at a hefty $4 million profit if he’s able to sell at the asking price.
As well as putting his Sunset Strip and Malibu properties on the market, Matthew recently sold his West Hollywood condo in the Sierra Towers for just under $3 million.
However, the 42-year-old actor is not homeless as he recently splashed out on a $8.65 million Sunset Strip home.
Matthew Perry just issued a statement to TMZ, telling the website he was making plans to go away while he focused on his sobriety.
He said, “I’m making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web.”
What triggered the statement? TMZ reports that while Perry hasn’t had a relapse, he’s taking the trip as a proactive measure.
Perry has long struggled with substance abuse. He has been to rehab twice for prescription pill addiction, once in 1997, and again in 2001.
Hopefully it all works out for him! Hang in there!
It’s a Friends war: Chandler has pushed Monica off the ABC schedule.
The network announced that the prized post-Modern Family timeslot will be filled by Mr. Sunshine, a new comedy starring Matthew Perry. The show will debut Wednesday, Feb. 9 at 9:30/8:30c, while the Courteney Cox comedyCougar Town goes on hiatus until April 13.
As far as I’m concerned, Cougar Town can go on permanent hiatus. I have never been a fan of the show. I know a lot of you say the show has gotten better, but I just don’t find it funny at all. I love Matthew Perry, so I’m hoping his new show is good!
Matthew Perry says he’s still mortified after spending the night talking to a man who he believed was director M. Night Shyamalan, only to find out he was a look-alike!
He struck up a friendly conversation with the cast from The Sixth Sense at the People’s Choice Awards back in 1999 and then was convinced he had run into him years later.
Perry Says:
“We talked for a little while, and then I started to realise, you know, he likes me. Laughing at everything I say, really enjoying me. We’re not really talking about showbusiness, just sort of bonding.
“I started to think, ‘Ok, this guy really likes me.’ Like in the Hollywood way where I’m going to be the lead in his next movie. I’m like, he’s going to make a movie about aliens who come down and there’s a trick ending, and it’s gonna be me!
We go to the next place, we’re hanging out. …Another hour passes, he goes to the bathroom, he comes back, and then… I realise it’s not M. Night Shyamalan. It’s just an Indian guy who looks a lot like M. Night Shyamalan! I hightailed it out of there. I felt dirty.”
Perry says he’s still embarrased and occasionally even sees the look-alike out and about in L.A.:
“The problem is, I see this guy out, now, and we look at each other like jilted lovers.”
It looks as if a movie adaptation of the massively popular TV series Friends could soon be hitting cinema screens.
According to the Daily Mail, the cast feel compelled to reprise their roles after the recent success of the Sex and the City movie, despite David Schwimmer previously claiming he would rather not play Ross again.
Schwimmer will be joined by Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow to begin filming “within the next 18 months”, says an insider.
“Jennifer, Courteney and the rest of the cast are keen to reprise their roles, under the right circumstances,” said a source.
“The box office success of Sex And The City has really got their wheels spinning about how a Friends film could be just as big, if done right.”
However, it has also been suggested that Jennifer Aniston was initially not as keen as other cast members to return, but the source noted the “huge payday” may have changed her mind.
