Friends is great but I haven’t watched all the episodes
And Lisa – who played kooky Phoebe Buffay in all 10 seasons of the 90s sitcom – is keen to make a Friends movie.
She says: “It would be fun if everybody wanted to do it. And I don’t just mean the cast, the creators of the show, too.”
The actress is currently starring in new Netflix comedy Space Force, alongside John Malkovich, Steve Carell, Diana Silvers and late Modern Family star Fred Willard.
The satirical show – which was co-written by Carell – ridicules President Trump’s new branch of the armed forces, set up to conquer outer space.
And Lisa says Steve – who shot to fame in the American version of The Office – was her reason for signing up.
“I got a text from Steve saying, ‘Hey, come be my wife. It’ll be fun’. Then it was, ‘All right! Oh, I should read the script!’
“I play Maggie Naird who is married to Steve’s General Mark Naird. Maggie is an ambitious Washington military wife but the rug always gets pulled out from under her.
“She is very resourceful without missing a step and takes everything in her stride.”
Lisa had to improvise some of the scenes in the show – something she admits was new to her.
“I’m not big on improvising, unless those are the instructions,” she says. “The thing is, Steve is really funny and he is a really good actor so that made it easier, for sure. He’s also just a really good person.
There’s no ego nonsense stuff with him. He’s just the easiest and so funny. It was great. I loved every day.”
While Lisa enjoys playing Steve’s on-screen wife, she says her real-life husband – French ad executive Michel Stern – is her biggest fan.
“I get so much support from my husband,” Lisa says. “He’s very patient and understanding. He likes the fact I’m working and busy. “He’d go crazy with boredom with a woman who’s just sitting around worrying about what they’re going to have for dinner, so we’re lucky.
“Michel is the most important thing in my life in terms of grounding me. He’s the leveller.”
The pair met 36
years ago, when
Michel was dating Lisa’s French housemate. But the couple didn’t actually get together until six years later.
“I’m freakishly polite so I saw him and went, ‘Well, he’s the perfect man and it’s all ruined because now they’re together’.
“They went out for two-and-a-half months and six years later, I met him again at her birthday party and we just never stopped.”
The pair wed in 1995 and have a son, Julian, 22. They recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary – although they were isolating in separate homes at the time.
Lisa says: “We are so used to not actually being able to be together on our anniversary. We were like, ‘Oh, well. Does it matter? I love you. You still love me?’ Yeah. Great. We’re good’.”
During her 30-year career, Lisa has earned an estimated £72million and was the first of