Zo\u00eb Kravitz<\/strong> is making enemies of Friends<\/em> fans!<\/p>\n While promoting her new 1998-set movie, Caught Stealing<\/em>, the actress told People<\/em><\/a> that she\u2019s \u201creally nostalgic\u201d for the final decade of the 20th century.<\/p>\n But when asked what she would leave behind in the \u201990s, Kravitz, 36, named the iconic sitcom. \u201cSuper homophobic<\/a> jokes on mainstream television,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you watch Friends<\/em> now, you\u2019re like, \u2018Whoa, that\u2019s\u2026\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Her costar Austin Butler<\/strong>, 34, replied, \u201cWow, even Friends<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOh, so much in Friends<\/em>,\u201d the Batman<\/em> star said. \u201cLike, things that aren\u2019t punchlines are punchlines. It\u2019s wild. So maybe that? We can keep that there.\u201d<\/p>\n Butler agreed: \u201cThat\u2019s crazy. Yeah, keep that in the \u201990s!\u201d<\/p>\n Kravitz isn\u2019t alone in her observations: Other<\/a> critics<\/a> have called out the show, which aired from 1994 to 2004, for frequently poking fun of Ross (David Schwimmer<\/strong>) because his ex-wife, Carol, married a woman.<\/p>\n In one episode, Ross is uncomfortable that Rachel (Jennifer Aniston<\/strong>) hires a male nanny for their daughter and assumes the man is gay. He also campaigns to fire the man.<\/p>\n In another running joke, characters frequently assumed Chandler (Matthew Perry<\/strong>) was gay. Kathleen Turner<\/strong> also played Chandler\u2019s father, Charles, a transgender woman.<\/p>\n Though Schwimmer, 58, defended the show for being \u201cgroundbreaking\u201d in a 2020 interview with The Guardian<\/em><\/a>, the show\u2019s co-creator, Marta Kauffman<\/strong>, 68, admitted to USA Today<\/em><\/a> in 2019 that \u201cevery time I watch an episode, there\u2019s something I wish I could have changed. All the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source starmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PF1\/WENN; Image Press Agency Zo\u00eb Kravitz is making enemies of Friends fans! While promoting her new 1998-set movie, Caught Stealing, the actress told People that she\u2019s \u201creally nostalgic\u201d for the final decade of the 20th century. But when asked what she would leave behind in the \u201990s, Kravitz, 36, named the iconic sitcom. \u201cSuper homophobic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1987422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Zoe-Kravitz-Slams-\u2018Super-Homophobic-Jokes-On-\u2018Friends-Says-to.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging.starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/wennphotosseven449943-scaled.jpg\")