She has one of the most recognisable voices of all time, but Maggie Wheeler - AKA Janice from Friends - sounds 100% different to the TV character we know her for.
ALL TOGETHER: OOOHHHH MYYYYY GOOODDDDDDDD.
During an interview with ITV's This Morning, the 55-year-old actress revealed how she came up with her memorable phrase and that distinctive laugh.
"It was just this progression - how Janice evolved, how the writers created the character for me. So the laugh happened organically in the first rehearsal, because I needed to find a way to laugh, because Matthew Perry is so funny," she admitted.
She added that the laugh was a result of her finding Perry so funny and couldn't control the giggles. "And working with him, I knew right away, I thought, 'This guy's gonna make me laugh on set, I've gotta be prepared. What am I going to do?' So I created Janice's laugh just as a safety measure for when Matthew made me laugh."
Her role wasn't supposed to have the run that it did, but Maggie was thrilled: "It was always a surprise that she continued to have a life on the show. I was always so thrilled every time the writers decided to bring me back," she said. "It started out as a one-shot deal - come in, do one episode - and out of that came 10 years of this extraordinary, joyful experience."
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