11 actors you didn't know were nearly cast in Friends
The main six could've been so different.
As Mark Darcy from Bridget Jones would say, you like Friends just the way it is. Despite some of the inconsistencies, plot holes and storylines that keep you up at night, it's perfect just as it is - and you'd be horrified to see anything change.
But it wasn't always meant to be the way it turned out: actually, at the very beginning, Friends creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman wanted to cast different actors as Ross Geller, Rachel Green, Monica Geller, Chandler Bing, Phoebe Buffay and Joey Tribbiani. Here are the most famous 11.
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