Courteney Cox says she was hurt being the only ‘Friends’ star not nominated for an Emmy

“Let’s face it, she’s adorable and intelligent and really together. She is Monica,” Marta Kauffman said in 1995, referring to Courteney Cox’s responsible and compulsively tidy character Monica on the show.

“I love Monica, because not only is she a grown-up, and that’s good for people to see, but I can bring more of my own personality to her, and I’ve never really been able to do that before,” Cox explained. “She can be goofy and angry and sarcastic and a little bit naughty. People think of her sort as the goody-goody and then prude on the show, but I think she has more sex than any of the others.”

Funny enough, Courteney Cox could see a lot of herself in her character, which turned out to be a legendary one.  And in fact, she is what she calls a “neat freak” in real life as well, just as Monica on Friends.

“I don’t use a lint brush or anything, and I don’t iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else. I was doing, I think it was The John Stewart Show and I was picking things off of him and I thought ‘oh my god, I’m just like Monica. This is too scary,’” Cox added.

Courteney Cox – net worth & ‘Friends’ salary

Friends became a worldwide phenomenon, and Courteney and her co-stars were paid generously. In the final seasons, it’s said that the Friends cast earned a staggering $1 million per episode.

Still to this day, even though it’s been 17 years since the last episode aired – the cast is said to earn about $20 million per year just for the reruns. That’s because they get two percent of the show’s syndication revenue, as reported by The Independent. Netflix reportedly paid $80-$100 million just to keep the show on its platform through 2019.