Matt LeBlanc was down to his last $11 before he landed his role on ‘Friends’.
The 51-year-old actor revealed that before he got cast as Joey Tribbiani in the hit 90s sitcom he was considering getting a job as a waiter as he was struggling to find any acting work and he was running out of money to live on.
Appearing on talk show ‘Conan’ he said: "I had, I think, I was down to $11, that’s holding out too long. Because even if I said at that point, ‘Alright, I’m going to go get a waiter job.’
"By the time that $11 ran out, it would have been before the first pay cheque on that job. I would have starved."
The ‘Episodes’ star also opened up about the frugal way he fixed his teeth when a photographer taking a headshot for him suggested he should have dental work.
Matt explained: "He said, ‘Before we take this, you might want to go get that tooth filed.’ I go, ‘What are you talking about?’ He said, ‘One tooth is a little longer than the other one. You should go get that filed.’"
Noting that he didn’t have dental insurance to cover the procedure, he continued: "I go to the drug store and buy a three pack of emery boards. I’m very frugal. He [the photographer] goes, ‘They did a nice job!"
Matt starred on the hit NBC show for ten seasons from 1994 to 2004 and recently confessed that although he’d enjoy a reunion of the show – which also starred Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer – he fears he may be too old now.
He previously said: "I understand that people really want to see that reunion. But that show was about a finite period in these six characters’ lives, between 20 and 30."
Matt LeBlanc had $11 before Friends role
