On This Day

July 31st, 1997:

The actors and actresses for the main characters in Real Friends were cast on July 30, 1997. But one of the actors on the morning of July 31, 1997 was offered the lead role in a CBS Show called Family Life, that one was: Zeke Dabney. He called Joey at 9:00 and asked where he was, and he responded with:

-I'm at AVB Studios, come here if you want to tell me something.

About 20 minutes later, he arrived at AVB Studios and explained to Joey and Tom that he had more interest in Family Life than in Real Friends. Henderson and Miranda were surprised, but understood his decision. At 9:50, they started to make calls to the agents of the four men who had auditioned for the role of Charlie , all of them were at AVB Studios by 10:30, just before the auditions began, a guy knocked on the door, and after presenting himself, he expressed his interest in the role of Charlie. His name is Brad Williams. Henderson and Miranda were interested and allowed him to try out for the role.

At 13:00, following lunch break, Henderson called Brad's agent, Will Ogle, to inform him that Brad had gotten the role of Charlie. Ogle told Brad and he was happy. At 13:300, he went to AVB Studios to thank Joey for the role. He asked about the time he had to be there for the table reading and rehearsals. Joey responded with the following statement:

-You just have to memorize your lines and be here in Studio B24 tomorrow at 15:30. Why at 15:30? Because it's a process that I want to see if it works.

-OK. Understood-Said Briand and he left the place.

At 16,00:

Logan Reed, Maurine Jensen, Connor Dallmann, Nicole Sackville, Elon Rimmer, Christine Xylander, Zeke Dabney and Grace Naldi at studio B24 to record the characters' lines. Joey explained to them that he wanted the cast to meet each other for the first time on the first day of filming, and that the table reading would be a reward for their efforts on the auditions, he also said that they'd get 6.000 US$ for reading the lines.

At 17,00:

Logan Reed, just before leaving AVB Studios, Tom told Joey that all the efforts would have been worth because he knew the series was going to be successful.

"Hmm, I see your point Tom. You know, it's hard to predict the success of something, but when it happens, it can be a part of you that will live within you for all times"-Responded Joey.

Find out tomorrow the story on how these 8 great actors first met.