Quinta Brunson has called out the hit TV series Friends for having ‘no Black characters’.
Friends is undoubtedly one of the biggest sitcoms of all time, with the show remaining popular two decades since its end.
It follows the lives of six adults in Manhattan as they live, work and love.
Full of quotable lines and memorable scenes, it continues to attract a new generation of fans each year.
Yet despite its popularity, Friends has faced its fair share of criticism…
The sitcom has faced a backlash for only featuring non-white actors in smaller roles.
Aisha Tyler played Charlie Wheeler – a palaeontologist who was a love interest to both Joey and Ross – in season nine of the show.
Although she had an important role during her brief tenure in the series, Tyler has since revealed that fans sometimes refer to her as the ‘Black girl from Friends‘.
She told Entertainment Weekly: “It was a massive show, a global hit. To this day, people come up to me and go, ‘Charlie, Charlie’, or they just go, ‘Black girl from Friends‘.”
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