Brooke Shields Reveals the Stunt She Did to Make Matthew Perry Laugh on “Friends”: 'I Had Rug Burns All Over My Knees!'

Brooke Shields had a secret to making Matthew Perry laugh during her guest appearance on Friends.

The actress, 59, revealed on the Jan. 13 episode of The View that she wanted to impress the cast of the long-running sitcom and feel like part of the group.

"When you go onto a show that's so well-oiled and so successful and I was such a fan, all I wanted was for them to like me," Shields said on the talk show. "I just wanted to be funny, but I wasn't in the group. They were very tight and had all these inside jokes."

The Mother of the Bride star felt inspired by a prank that Perry – who died in October 2023 at age 54 – would pull on set and remembered thinking, "If I can make him laugh, it's just going to feel so good."

Describing his recurring joke with the cast, she said Perry "would run and throw himself on the floor in front of a girl and pretend to look up her skirt."

Shields cautioned that the stunt couldn’t be replicated today as "you'd get canceled."

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But, in that moment, the actress decided to give Perry a taste of his own medicine.

"I thought, 'Oh my God, I know what I'm going to do.' I ran so fast from one end of the stage all the way to the other, threw myself on the ground and pretended to look up his pant leg, and everybody was quiet," the actress explained. "I'm on the floor and I'm like, 'I just suck … I look like a crazy person.' I'm on the floor for what felt like an hour. It was probably one second and all of a sudden he started laughing, and they all started laughing."

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Eventually, she recalled Perry asking her, "How did you know to do that?" to which she replied, "I have just been watching you. I just wanted to say thank you for giving us such humor."

Shields said the moment was "really sweet," but left her with a few minor injuries. "The rug burns," she recalled, "I had rug burns all over my knees!"

Shields guest-starred in a 1996 episode of the comedy show titled "The One After the Super Bowl," in which she played a stalker who believes Joey is actually the soap opera character he plays on television. The episode also featured Julia Roberts, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Fred Willard and Dan Castellaneta.

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Shields' talk show appearance was timed to the release of her new book Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed To Get Old, set to hit the shelves on Jan. 14. In it, the star offers "an intimate and empowering exploration of aging that flips the script on the idea of what it means for a woman to grow older," per the synopsis.

On the same day, Shields appeared on Good Morning America and opened up about her decision to address women's experience in the healthcare system in the forthcoming memoir.

"Women go through stuff. We need to be able to say, 'This isn’t fair.' We need to be able to self-advocate," she said. "I had a seizure not too long ago and the two male doctors said, ‘Are you restricting yourself for dietary reasons?’ And I was like, ‘No. I’m a 59-year-old woman who looks younger bloated. Give me some potato chips!’ You wouldn’t say that to a man."

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