“And I was like, ‘Hey, what’s up guys? How are you doing?’ And they were like, ‘You’re the worst, man. They all were looking at me, the whole cast,” he adds. It had carpet that smelled and old fruit that was lying around. And finally I get to this dumpy wooden trailer from the ’30s. “But a 15-minute walk through the back alleys of Warner Brothers Studios. “They had all of these beautiful dressing rooms behind the stage, and a lot of times guest stars would get the dressing rooms,” he recalls. In fact, when he first joined the cast, they played a particularly clever prank on him. It was really ultimately a great experience of how people can treat you really well, and you still do your job even though you’re sort of dying inside.” If you can go through a tough breakup, and still do your job, then you’re a pro. It was sort of like I proved that, hey, I guess I’m a pro. In other words, they were just compassionate, very compassionate about the whole breakup. “The good thing that came out of it was that everyone was really cool about it, and really as helpful as they could be. But in fact, we had dated for two years before then, and it was over by the time we were on Friends together.”ĭespite the rocky circumstances, the MacGyver star says he felt extremely welcome during his short time on the legendary show. “The people that know that we dated think that we met on Friends. We were like, ‘Hey, can we not keep doing this? ‘Cause this is really painful and tough,’” he says. I mean, only because we were breaking up. Hall/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images She even donned a high school cheerleading outfit to catch his eye! However, Donovan now admits that, off camera, the entire experience was an ordeal.Īlice S. She soon developed a thing for him and endeavored to get his attention, which included giving him Knicks tickets in the hopes that he would take her. That was just tough.”ĭiehard fans will remember that Donovan was cast as Joshua, Rachel’s personal shopping client at Bloomingdale’s. “And so that was tricky to sort of act, and act like we are just meeting each other, and falling in love, or whatever, interested in each other, when we’re sort of breaking up. The only bummer was Jennifer and I were breaking up at the time,” the now 54-year-old actor tells Us Weekly while recalling the situation. That was the dilemma that Tate Donovan faced when he was cast as Rachel’s ( Jennifer Aniston) new boyfriend on Friendsin 1998, just as the pair’s real-life romance was coming to an end. Imagine falling hard for someone, then breaking up just when you’re asked to fall for that same person all over again – while on camera.
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