“And I told the truth and got the job so...”
Por qué es buena
Honesty plus luck, told in one plain sentence.
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Informal
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I admitted what I didn't know and still got the offer.
She owned her mistake and kept the client anyway.
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The Cast Recalls Their Auditions, Explained
Friends: The Reunion · 2021
Capítulo 9 de 25 · 3'06"
The cast swap audition stories, and one turns into a disaster: drinks with a friend, a fall into a toilet, a scab on the nose right before the callback. "And I told the truth and got the job," he admits — the messiest story ends in the part.
Key moments
Start here, then watch the full scene- 0:23–1:32
❝ Monólogo · 19 frases The Toilet Story
69s - 2:37–3:04
Casting Monica
27s
The Cast Recalls Their Auditions, explained
What happens
The cast look back on how they were hired. One tells of running lines with a friend, going drinking, and waking up to fall face first into a toilet, leaving a scab before the final callback — yet telling the truth still won the part. Another says the creators wrote his role with his voice in mind.
What's really going on
The audition stories are funny, but they are also the reunion's way of showing how ordinary the beginning was. One cast member traces the whole accident — the drinks, the bathroom, the gash — down to a single moral: "And I told the truth and got the job." Behind the joke sits a small idea about the show itself, that plainness and honesty were the point. The other story works the same way in reverse: a role was shaped around a specific actor, "with my voice in mind," so the part and the person were never fully separable. What looks like backstage gossip is really the origin story of a group that came together by chance and accident.
Key lines & what they mean
- “And I told the truth and got the job so...”
- The punchline of the toilet story: honesty, not perfection, is what won the part.
- “Courteney brought this incredible joy to the character.”
- Praise for how Courteney Cox lifted Monica beyond what the creators had planned.
- “That was much more entertaining than my story.”
- A self-deprecating comparison after a bug scare upstages the audition anecdote.
- “-The important thing is that we dealt with it well.”
- A mock-serious framing, treating a silly on-set moment as something handled with care.
Theme
- Dreams — The cast recall the auditions and near-misses that led to the roles that changed their lives.
- Identity — One role was written around a particular actor's voice, tying the character to the person from the start.
Qué aprendes en este capítulo
Puntos de enseñanza
Repasa justo después de verMi nivel0/4
A1–C2 es la escala MCER. Las tarjetas por encima del nivel elegido se atenúan y la reproducción no se pausa en ellas.
Puntos de lengua
Toca una tarjeta para saltar a ese momentoFrases de oro
Una gran frase en sí misma: por qué y cómo usarla“Courteney brought this incredible joy to the character.”
Por qué es buena
The right way to credit an actor for a character's spirit.
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Neutral
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Marcus brought this incredible energy to the whole project.
She brought this incredible warmth to every class she taught.
“That was much more entertaining than my story.”
Por qué es buena
A self-deprecating comparison that hands the moment to someone else.
Registro
Informal
Úsala tú
That was much more impressive than my little anecdote.
That was much more dramatic than anything I went through.
“-The important thing is that we dealt with it well.”
Por qué es buena
A calm reframe that turns a small mess into a lesson about attitude.
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Neutral
Úsala tú
The important thing is that we caught the bug in time.
The important thing is that you learned something.
Monólogo
Un personaje sostiene la escena: practícalo entero❝ Toilet as callback ticket
-I remember I had gone in a bunch of times, and I think it was on the final callback. I had gone -- I had gone with a friend of mine to run lines and he said, you know, "So the show's about friends and being friends with, you know, just a group of friends?" I was like, "Yeah, kind of." He goes, "Then we should go out drinking." And I was like, "Yeah, that's a good idea." So to make a long story short, I woke up in the middle of the night at his apartment and had to go to the bathroom, and I got up too fast. And I can't believe I'm telling this, but I kind of blacked out, as you do, and fell face first into the toilet. And I hit my nose on the bottom of the toilet seat and a huge, like, chunk of meat came off my nose. And I'm looking in the mirror and it's bleeding. I was like, "Oh, my God." So I have to go in for the big callback. And it's like a big, ugly scab on my nose. And Marta Kauffman said, "What happened to your face?" And I told the truth and got the job so...
Drink, run lines, eat the toilet, tell the truth, walk out as Joey.
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La pregunta, luego la fraseHow did one cast member hurt his nose before an audition?
After drinking with a friend, he woke at night, got up too fast, blacked out and fell face first into the toilet, cutting his nose right before the callback.
What did Marta Kauffman ask when she saw his face?
She asked, "What happened to your face?" He told her the truth about the toilet fall, and still ended up getting hired.
Why did David Schwimmer feel the part was written for him?
He says the creators made it clear that they had written the part of Ross with his voice in mind, which made the character feel tailored to him.
What did the creators originally see Courteney Cox as?
They first saw her as a Rachel type, but she explained why she was more of a Monica, and they agreed she was right.