Friends star David Schwimmer has apologised to Living Single actor Erika Alexander after she criticised his claims that it was time for an “all-black Friends or an all-Asian Friends”.
Schwimmer, who played Ross, Friends’ buffoonish romantic lead, apologised on Twitter, saying: “I didn’t mean to imply Living Single hadn’t existed or indeed hadn’t come before Friends, which I knew it had.”
Schwimmer made the remarks an interview with The Guardian, where he defended the hit NBC sitcom against accusations that it lacked diversity.
He said that Friends was “groundbreaking in its time for the way in which it handled so casually sex, protected sex, gay marriage and relationships…