When the figurative rain started to pour, “Friends” actor Matt LeBlanc was there for his co-star Lisa Kudrow, just like the show’s theme song promised.

Back in the ’90s, the television show introduced the world to Kudrow’s eccentric character, Phoebe Buffay. She quickly became a fan favorite — smelly cats and all — but stepping into Phoebe’s shoes wasn’t exactly a walk in Central Park. 

During a June 6 interview forVariety’s Actors on Actors series with actor Parker Posey, Kudrow revealed that portraying Phoebe was “so far from” who she was as a person, and admitted that the role took “work” to portray.

“I needed to justify everything she was saying in my head so that it felt like she meant it and it was real to her,” Kudrow said.  

Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow crack each other up on the set of the hit NBC series "Friends" during one of the last shows filmed on the Warner Bros lot Sept. 12, 2003, in Burbank, California. David Hume Kennerly via Getty Images

“I remember Season 2 or 3, I went, ‘Oh my God, I’m not doing the work,’” Kudrow recalled.

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That’s when LeBlanc chimed in with some sage words of wisdom:  “What’s the matter with you? You’re her. You don’t have to.”

From that moment, Kudrow said, the work became “fun.”

Kudrow has opened up about what it was like to film the hit series before. Last. year, she clarified a comment made by co-star Jennifer Aniston, who said that Kudrow “hated when the audience laughed” during tapings.

“No, that’s not exactly ― no, no,” Kudrow told ETOnline. “It irritated me if they would laugh for too long. God bless them. They were so excited to be there.”

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