Courteney Cox has spoken about how much she “loved playing overweight Monica” when she starred in Friends. The actor wore a fat suit to play the beloved character in flashback episodes of the sitcom, which aired between 1994 and 2004.
Speaking in a new interview with Ellen DeGeneres, Cox said: “I loved playing overweight Monica because I felt so free. I could dance… like you [Ellen] and just sit up and dance and have no problem at all.
I did love it. Those are really good episodes.” © Provided by The Independent Cox, who has been watching Friends while in lockdown, joked: “It’s really good, turns out… Thanksgiving episodes are my favourite.” Friends has been criticised in recent years for perpetuating the image of overweight people as