We Finally Know Who Played The Ugly Naked Guy On FRIENDS. Mystery Has Been Solved!

There are some parts from your memory which stand out, but you have no idea why and how you remember them. And then there some things which are so minuscule that they are are almost non-existent, but they stand out in your memory with a glaring light and refuse to dim down.

If you’re a F.R.I.E.N.D.S fanatic like me and The Huffington Post writer Todd Van Luling, you will have scratched your head and done a brief search on the Internet about Ugly Naked Guy (UNG). But not Todd. Todd went on a hunt that lasted a year, and here is what happened.

Websites like IMDb, Wikipedia, and the ‘F.R.I.E.N.D.S’ Wikia did not yield any results, and they had credited the wrong actor as UNG.

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Remember the janitor, Mr. Treeger. He is credited as the UNG everywhere. But when he was reached out to, he denied it and said that he always played only Mr. Treeger and no other character.

 

Many points of contact were made. The casting director, the producer, even the casting agency which provided the extras. But all returned with the negative.

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Interviews with other cast members didn’t help, and the only cast member who shared screen space with UNG was Ross, a.k.a., David Schwimmer. Todd could never reach out to him, and that was a dead end.

 

After a year of beating around the bush with no result, one man finally came forward, through the casting agency that Todd had contacted before. His name is Jon Haugen.

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He said he was very happy applying for the role and that he loved acting in the show and wishes there is a reunion. Since Haugen appeared only twice in the show, the casting agency never held on to his records, which is why he was as good as non-existent, until recently. He also said that David Schwimmer was a treat to work with and they filmed the scene in boxer shorts and never got actually naked.

You can read the entire story here. It’s really a very interesting read.


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