Lisa Kudrow Urges New Warner Bros. Owners Not To “Change A Thing”

With the imminent sale of Warner Bros., Lisa Kudrow recently took a stroll down Memory Lane—located on the Burbank studio lot.

As the Emmy winner reminisced about filming Friends on the WB lot, she urged the new owners to keep the historic lot “preserved as is,” getting emotional about recently filming the third and final season of HBO’s The Comeback there.

“It’s hard for me to tell if Warner Bros. is just special to me, or if it’s special to the whole city or industry. I think it is,” she told Architectural Digest. “Everything changes ownership all the time and you don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Kudrow added, “I think most people really hope whatever happens next is that this studio lot is preserved as is. It works. I mean, we just shot here. Whoever buys it, you don’t need to change anything. It works, it works great. So, congratulations whoever’s next. Please don’t change a thing. Please, please don’t remove Jack Warner’s roses.”

The Romy & Michele star’s heartfelt plea came amid the Netflix-Warner Bros merger’s Senate antitrust subcommittee hearing, as the streamer is “highly confident” it will close the $83B deal.

Meanwhile, new Paramount Skydance owner David Ellison is continuing his mission to derail the deal, attempting to snatch up WB for his own growing studio empire.