Ep 96. Courteney Cox

Off Camera with Sam Jones

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Arts, Education, Off Camera, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

So no one told her life was going to be this way. Except Friends director Jimmy Burrows, who took Courteney Cox and her fellow cast members to dinner in Vegas, telling them to enjoy the last time they'd ever be able to go out together in public without causing total pandemonium. For Cox, who never had a master plan, it was the start of what was arguably the most successful 18-year run on series television, after which some actors might welcome a break and a margarita or two. Others might freak out just a bit. You probably know what camp she falls in. We talk to Cox about her meteoric acting career, what it's like to simultaneously finance and direct an independent film, learning her craft on the fly, and how none of it would have ever happened if Brian De Palma had actually listened to her back in 1984.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, Sam Jones here.
0:05.0	Welcome to another edition of Off-camera, the show where I get to talk to iconic,
0:11.0	creative, curious artists, and find out how they got that way. In this
0:15.1	episode I sit down with actress and director Courtney Cox. When I first met
0:20.1	Courtney I was a young photographer assigned to shoot the cast of an unknown show called
0:25.1	Friends. By the time I directed an episode of a show Cougar town about 18 years
0:29.8	later she'd had one of the longest and most successful television careers ever.
0:34.0	Sure, Luck and Bruce Springsteen played a role in it, and there's no denying that friends
0:39.2	captured lightning in a bottle in a way no show has ever done since. But all along, Courtney has pushed and
0:45.1	challenged herself as an artist, using every experience to develop her craft as
0:49.7	an actor and more recently as a director.
0:53.0	Her film just before I go reveals an unexpectedly dark sense of humor and also what it's
0:58.2	like to find your voice in the public eye.
1:01.0	I sit down with Courtney to talk about her meteoric career, what she learned about
1:05.1	movie music from Gus Van Zant, and why a break after nearly two decades of work is more likely
1:10.9	to result in panic than a trip to the Caribbean.
1:13.0	What surprised me most was how close it all came to never happening.
1:17.0	So pull up a chair and listen in.
1:20.0	Hi, Courtney.
1:23.6	Hi, Hi Sam.
1:24.7	Thanks for doing this.
1:25.8	Ah, thanks for having me.
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