Lisa Kudrow Says Sandra Bullock Once Accidentally Called Her ‘Phoebe’ in Real Life

Sandra Bullock had an adorable slip of the tongue when speaking with Lisa Kudrow. 

The 60-year-old Friends alum recalled when Bullock mistakenly called her by the name of her iconic TV character when the two women attended a party together. 

“We were talking and she’s like, ‘Well, I guess you’ll just have to talk to yourself, Phoebe,'” Kudrow sharing during Tuesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live with guest host Anthony Anderson.

“She called me Phoebe,” Kudrow explained with a laugh. 

“But she caught herself,” she added. “She went, ‘What’d I just do?'” 

Kudrow starred as the lovable Phoebe Buffay on the NBC sitcom for 10 seasons between 1994 and 2004. 

The actress recently sat down with ET to discuss her new series, Time Bandits. In the interview, Kudrow clarified her feelings about having a live studio audience during the taping of Friends, after her former co-star, Jennifer Aniston, claimed she “hated” the way they would laugh during jokes.

Kudrow explained that she did not, in fact, hate having audiences — she just felt that they would occasionally laugh a bit too much.

“No, that’s not exactly — no, no. It irritated me if they would laugh for too long,” Kudrow said, responding to Aniston’s recounting of events.

In Time Bandits — based on the 1981 Terry Gilliam fantasy epic, and co-created by Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement and Iain Morris — Kudrow stars as Penelope, the leader of a group of time-traveling pirates and adventurers. 

For Kudrow, getting to star on Time Bandits is something of a perfect blend of all the story elements she enjoys herself.

“Time travel? I love it! And I love history. I’m kind of a history buff,” Kudrow recently told ET. “And it’s just fun.”

Time Bandits premieres July 24 on Apple TV+. 

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