We know that yesterday’s titles always run the risk of being read with today’s eyes and accused, for this, of impropriety and unpresentability, only that we would never have believed that one of these titles could be Friends. To confirm it is Jennifer Aniston who, in an interview withAssociated Foreign Press made on the occasion of the Netflix release of the second chapter of Murder Mystery, she thought of talking once again about the sit-com that made her so successful but that today not everyone could appreciate as much as they used to. “There’s a whole generation of people and kids who watch episodes of today Friends and find them offensive.” Aniston said in fact.
“There were things that were never intentional and other… well, we had to think about it, but I don’t think there was a sensibility like there is now,” she added. “It’s gotten risky because you have to be careful, which makes it harder for comedians, because the beauty of comedy is that we make fun of ourselves, we joke about life». Basically Aniston, who took part in Friends throughout his ten seasons in the role of Rachel Green, she is convinced – rightly – that in Hollywood today it is very difficult to try to arouse a laugh by dribbling the possible indignations ready to arrive on all fronts.
In the past, for Aniston, «you could make irony about a bigot and laugh at him, it was very funny. And it was done to show how ridiculous those people were. Now we can’t do it anymore.” And then again: «Everyone needs entertainment, the world needs humour. We can’t take ourselves too seriously. Especially in the US. We are all too divided.” The country where this discourse has found fertile ground on which to germinate is precisely America, which has even developed a new regulation according to which only films capable of respecting certain inclusiveness criteria will compete for the Oscar awards, pace of talent – this unknown – which seems to have been supplanted by values that should be tributed in ways more intelligent and functional than a code.
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