Hannah Fry

Or she was a fat teenager.

So now she's very controlled with her lifestyle or...

Yeah, it all joins up.

But that's because that is actually what we all do about our friends.

Yeah.

All we do is just sit around and talk about why our friends are the way we are.

Even when they're driving you mad, you'll be like, well, to be fair, it's because of that thing that happened with her dad or she never faced the trauma of this.

Or if you look at the pattern with her partners, that's why, you know, that's what we love doing.

But yeah, everything joins up, even what you were saying about Rachel being so recognisable.

And actually, weirdly, when I was growing up and obsessed with Friends, like all of our generation was, I remember really, really disliking Rachel.

And it's because as I've got older, I think she is the one that I identify the most with.

I think her flaws are just so relatable.

It's like how self-involved she is.

I think she's quite anxious.

I think she's quite fearful, which probably informs her self-involvement and kind of self-preservation.

Her vanity I really identify with.

I think her kind of... She's got quite...

big delusions in romance she's a bit of a fantasist that part of Rachel's like character is quite interesting I've really noticed it on this rewatch of like yeah she is like a fantasist when it comes to romance she's always like reading romance or writing romance or the episode I rewatched this morning was when they go to Judy and Jack's wedding anniversary oh yeah and Judy and Jack had like

really upset that they're pregnant out of wedlock so they pretend that they're married and then Rachel just has the best day of her life at this wedding I'm talking about a spake wedding that she had with Ross where people said she looked like a floating angel I just identify so much with her I just think there's something like so like childlike about her in a way that's and also it makes so much sense that

Again when you meet her two sisters Yeah I was going to say that We're talking about the relatives So let's like start We're on Rachel now So let's start with Rachel And we'll drill down So I think Rachel is like What my By the way Please I've asked you this so many times And every time I ask you this You just ignore it Please Can we credit me On this episode As Dr Dolly Alderton Yes Can we please Yes we can Thank you I think it will be an insult To the many PhD students Who