Friends star David Schwimmer wasn’t an enormous fan of the present’s theme track: ‘I didn’t have the best response to it’

Over the years, the Friends theme track, I’ll Be There for You by The Rembrandts has develop into probably the most recognisable TV anthems of all time. However, for a very long time, actor David Schwimmer wasn’t notably keen on it. During a latest look on Matt Lucas and David Walliams’ Making a Scene podcast, the 58-year-old actor who performed the position of Ross Geller on the present, revealed that listening to the track repeatedly all through the present’s 10-season run took a toll on him. “I never watched the show after we finished it,” he admitted to the hosts. Lucas, 51, quipped, “Same, I never watched your show.”

David went on to clarify, “For me, it’s like, I did it, I’m moving on. I don’t really go back and revisit.” However, his perspective shifted when his daughter, Cleo, developed an curiosity within the present at round 9 years outdated. David, who shares the 13-year-old with ex-wife Zoë Buckman, recalled how her newfound love for the collection modified issues for him.

“I’ll be really honest, there was a time for quite a while that just hearing the theme song would really,” he stated, pausing as he struggled to place the sensation into phrases. He sighed earlier than including, “You know what I mean? I just had that reaction. I mean, I just had heard it so many times.”

Adding some humour, Matt chimed in with the track’s well-known opening line: “Well, no one told you life was going to be that way.” David responded with a easy, “Correct, thank you.” He defined that each time he made a public look, the track can be performed as his introduction, which contributed to his reluctance to listen to it. “And any time you’d go on a show or a talk show or an interview, that would be your intro song. So I just didn’t have the greatest response to it,” he stated.

But every part modified when he heard it via his daughter’s ears. “I’d be making breakfast or whatever and I’d hear my kid’s laughter,” he recalled. “My whole relationship to that song and to the show changed.”

Friends premiered on September 22, 1994, and adopted six younger adults navigating life and love in Manhattan. Alongside David, the favored sitcom starred Jennifer Aniston (Rachel Green), Courteney Cox (Monica Geller), Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe Buffay), Matt LeBlanc (Joey Tribbiani), and the late Matthew Perry (Chandler Bing). Last yr, the present celebrated 30 years since its debut.