David Schwimmer couldn't hear the 'Friends' theme music for years.
The actor reconciled with the series that made him famous thanks to his daughter.
BarcelonaActor David Schwimmer, one of the protagonists of Friends, was unable to listen to the theme song for the series that made him famous for years because it made him feel so miserable. "I'll be very honest. For a long time, the song—the theme song—made me shiver," he said during an appearance on the podcast Making en Scene, by Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
"Do you understand? I just had that reaction. I heard it so many times... When I would go on a show or an interview, they would always play it," the actor recalls. Schwimmer's aversion to I'll be there for you, by The Rembrandts, came about during a period in his life when he was struggling with the fame he gained from playing Ross Geller.
"Jim Burrows [the director of Friends] took us to Las Vegas before the show premiered. As we were walking through one of the casinos, he told us to remember that it was the last time we'd be able to walk around so peacefully,” the actor explains. “I realized Burrows was right one day when I was alone at an airport. I heard a bloodcurdling scream. I got really scared. I thought someone had been stabbed or something. A group of girls came up, started screaming, and grabbed me. And they wouldn't let go… it was terrifying. It took me a long time to get used to that kind of fame. I had three cars following me everywhere, waiting outside my house. I never had any privacy,” he laments.
However, his aversion to the show that made him famous has lessened, thanks in large part to his daughter. “I couldn't watch the show again after it ended. For me, it was a phase that I was leaving behind. My daughter discovered it when she was 9 and started watching it. "I was making breakfast or whatever, and I heard my daughter laughing. My relationship with that song and the show changed again," says David Schwimmer.
