
“They were in their prime doing the greatest stuff. “It was like being on the Golden State Warriors,” he says. I’m never gonna work on this show.’”Īnd from then on, Donovan felt like he was on a “championship” team. Great, fine.’ I didn’t freak out and that’s what they were hoping for, that I would call my agent and say, ‘This is bullsh-t. Like, give him the worst trailer known to mankind. I was like, ‘OK, so it’s a trailer.’ They were trying to play a practical joke on me basically. “I didn’t care because I knew I wasn’t gonna spend any time in my trailer. Of course that’s not your trailer,’” he continues. And I was like, ‘Hey, what’s up guys? How are you doing?’ And they were like, ‘You’re the worst, man. They all were looking at me, the whole cast. The crew went on to leave him in the filth for 10 minutes. It had carpet that smelled and old fruit that was lying around.

'By the time I started to direct, the kids on the show had developed a really bad attitude,' Donovan told Vulture. In an interview with Vulture, the actor opened up about the difficulty of working with the kids of the Newport Beach. And finally I get to this dumpy wooden trailer from the ’30s. But Tate Donovan - who played Jimmy Cooper on 'The O.C.' for three years - has soured the nostalgia fun a bit. … But a 15-minute walk through the back alleys of Warner Brothers Studios. “They had all of these beautiful dressing rooms behind the stage, and a lot of times guest stars would get the dressing rooms. Actor Tate Donovan revealed he was dying inside after breaking up with Jennifer Aniston while filming his stint on her hit 90s sitcom Friends. They even pranked him before cameras began rolling on his first day.
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The cast didn’t just crack jokes with Donovan on set, though. But in fact we had dated for two years before then, and it was over by the time we were on Friends together.” “The people that know that we dated think that we met on Friends. We were like, ‘Hey, can we not keep doing this? ‘Cause this is really painful and tough,’” he recalls of his and Aniston’s feelings about working together at the time. I mean, only because we were breaking up. Rachel quickly struck up a crush, handed over her Knicks tickets to him and his nephew (he didn’t know it was a date offer!) and ultimately changed into her high school cheerleader outfit to catch his eye. That was just tough.”ĭonovan played Joshua, a personal shopping client of Rachel Green’s (Aniston) at Bloomingdale’s.

“And so that was tricky to sort of act, and act like we are just meeting each other, and falling in love, or whatever, interested in each other, when we’re sort of breaking up. The only bummer was Jennifer and I were breaking up at the time,” Donovan, 54, recalls exclusively to Us Weekly.
