This one seems like right out of an episode of Friends. [Cinema Blend] (tip Karthik via email)
Chandler: “I see brown people”
img: via Cinema Blend
Most desis (including yours truly) love Friends, plain and simple. Matthew Perry’s bumbling Chandler Bing was one of the most endearing characters, giving him instant name recognition even among desis.
Well, apparently the love, was mutual, at least between Perry and one brown person, M. Night Shyamalan.
He explains, “I was at the People’s Choice Awards a while back and that night I met all the Sixth Sense people; M. Night Shyamalan, Haley Joel Osment. So I met them, I spoke with them for a few minutes.”
The former Friends star first met the filmmaker (Shyamalan) at a Hollywood awards show during promotion for 1999 movie The Sixth Sense, and he was delighted when he encountered the man he was convinced was Shyamalan on another night out years later.
No surprise Chandler …. errr…. Matthew Perry, was happy to meet Shyamalan again and proceeded to hang out with and apparently the two had a great time.
Then a few years later I was out at this place in Hollywood and M. Night Shyamalan walked up and said hello. I was like, ‘Oh my God, come sit down, please join us.’ We sat there for a few minutes and everybody sort of filtered out and it was just me and M. Night Shyamalan. Pretty great, great guy, very talented.
No Chandler Bing episode was complete with some sort of gay innuendo.
“We talked for a little while, and then I started to realize, you know, he likes me. Laughing at everything I say, really enjoying me. We’re not really talking about show business, just sort of bonding. At one point, about an hour into it, he says, ‘You know, I know this other place, it’s opening night’, and so we go to the carpool, he gets his car and I get my car and I follow him all the way across town. On the way there, I started to think, ‘Ok, this guy really likes me.’
Well, no Shyamalan movie is complete without a surprise ending.
We go to the next place, we’re hanging out. …Another hour passes, he goes to the bathroom, he comes back, and then… I realize it’s not M. Night Shyamalan. It’s just an Indian guy who looks a lot like M. Night Shyamalan!
Getting back to Chandler, he was known for dumping women he dated abruptly without any explanation.
I hightailed it out of there. I felt dirty.”
So there you have it, a story involving Chandler Bing that sounds like an episode of Friends, with a M. Night Shyamalan surprise twist ending. And, by the way, Matthew Perry think all brown folks look the same.
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