Actor Matthew Perry died this Saturday at the age of 54.Interpreter of Character Chandler in the successful American series “Friends” (19942004). The artist was found dead in a hot tub at his homein Los Angeles, in the United States, according to the website “TMZ”.
Sources interviewed by the “TMZ” report report that the The artist would have drowned and that rescuers responded to a call for help at the American’s home due to a cardiac arrest. Next to the bathtub, There were no drugs or any signs of crime. The case is being properly analyzed by the authorities.
Life full of successes and setbacks
Highly rated, professional, intelligent, funny, beautiful and rich. Still, actor Matthew Perry hasn’t had a smooth life. Entertaining others has always been the artist’s goal and he didn’t just want to become very, very famous. He got there, that’s true. He simply did not expect that he would also become an alcoholic, an opioid addict and an inveterate smoker, as he himself reflected openly in his autobiography “Friends, Loves and That Terrible Thing,” which he published this year (and which was published in Brazil). Bestseller).
Despite the regrets and the problems Matthew Perry made a point of injecting good humor throughout most of the cover’s pages, even where he reviews dirty moments or hospital stays he’s faced in order to (temporarily) find relief from his Looking to get away. Yes, the actor seems to have had fun writing the book.
Absent family
Matthew Perry was born in the USA in 1969 and moved to Canada with his family as a baby. But his parents separated when he was 9 months old. His childhood with his always very busy mother was a constant battle for attention. When the father moved to California, the emptiness grew, grew, grew… And it became chronic.
When he traveled alone to Los Angeles at the age of 12 to live with his father, the boy realized that he would now be “every man for himself,” which would have been crucial for his career. He even tried to convince himself that he would become a champion on the tennis court, but he couldn’t get anywhere especially after the age of 14, after his first drinking sessions.
Beginnings as an actor
With a sharp tongue and a natural talent for the screen, Perry rose to prominence in the artistic world as a teenager until, somewhat by chance, he managed to land the last available role in Friends. He never had any doubt that Chandler wasn’t just a character: from his perspective, Chandler was Matthew Perry himself.
More recently, the actor hardly spoke about the series that made him famous. But he always maintained that it was “the best job in the world.” Since modesty was not one of his strengths, he asserted that his special way of making jokes changed the tone of millions of Americans, which he confirms in his own biography.
He assured that he had never worked under the influence of drugs in the 237 episodes of the biggest American TV hit of his time. However, he once left the detox facility where he was staying just to record Chandler’s wedding to Monica (actress Courteney Cox). At the end of the day, he returned to rehab.
The series opened up several avenues for him, not just in a humorous sense. As the funniest character in the “Friends” group, he also impressed most viewers as a dramatic actor: Of his four Emmy nominations, the most important award in American television, three were for appearances in “serious roles” in the film “The Ron Clark Story” (2006) and the series “West Wing: Behind the Scenes of Power” (1999), which earned him two nominations.
Survivors
Perry considered himself a “survivor.” He has been drugfree since the middle of the pandemic and dedicated himself to helping addicts and alcoholics. At the end of his autobiography, he made it a point to leave an optimistic message. And he emphasized that people who always have a joke up their sleeve often use good humor to mask an emptiness that weighs heavily on their chest, the kind that Freud explains but does not cure.
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