Little-Known Details About the Hit Show Friends

Lisa Kudrow Has No Idea How to Play a Guitar

One of Phoebe's most defining characteristics, playing the guitar, actually didn't come naturally to actress Lisa Kudrow. Despite the lessons Phoebe gave Joey in the episode titled 'The One With All The Resolutions,' Kudrow didn't have the skills for the role. She even took lessons to try and play more convincingly, but her progress was limited. Eventually, the showrunners decided to embrace Phoebe's lack of guitar-playing ability as part of her character, and somehow it worked.

If anything, Phoebe's poor guitar skills actually made her character all the more endearing. In hindsight, the show owes a lot to Kudrow's inability to play a stringed instrument.