Zoë Kravitz denounces homophobia in Friends

“When you watch Friends today, you say to yourself: ‘Whoa!”

In full promotion of his new film trapped by Darren Aronofsky, Zoë Kravitz indulged in a touch of nostalgia for the 90s:

“(I am) really nostalgic for that time,” she told People magazine. “And then fashion, it was so cool. New York City, grunge …”

But there is one thing that she does not regret: the sitcoms of the time, which were hitting on TV and which, according to her, disseminated homophobic values.

“The jokes were super homophobic in the TV programs for the general public. In the sitcoms in particular. When you watch Friends today, you say to yourself: ‘Whoa!”

By his side in the video, Austin Butler, his partner in trapped, hallucinated and reacts with astonishment to this indignation: “Wow, do you find? Even in Friends?”

And Kravitz to confirm his thought, without turning around the pot:

“Oh, but so much in Friends. Things that are not even valves are treated like punchlines. It’s crazy. So that can be left in the past.”

A reproach often made to the series and in particular in relation to the integration of the transgender father of Chandler (Matthew Perry).

But Friends is also one of the first homosexual marriages broadcast in prime time in an American series. And in the special edition of first devoted to the 30th anniversary of Friends and published last year, the three creators of the series defended their approach: “even when there was a sensitive subject, it was always treated so as not to make it all a hay. There was no judgment. There was a episode centered on a lesbian wedding, and it seemed to be the most natural thing in the world.

They also recalled that manners were not those of today. And in any case, the series has never really caused the slightest toleged: “I believe that the episode which earned us the most fiery letters was that where Rachel’s father makes fun of the chiropractors. An association of chiropractors sent us whole bags of indignant letters. That is to say how much we were a controversy!”