《老友記》幕後的10件軼事 (10):喬伊與瑞秋之間的短暫戀情

Matt & Jennifer didn't like the idea of Rachel and Joey Hooking up.

1.珍妮弗與馬特都不喜歡喬伊與瑞秋之間的短暫戀情

Matt & Jennifer didn’t like the idea of Rachel and Joey Hooking up.

馬特和珍妮佛都排斥瑞秋和喬伊之間的戀愛橋段

Ok brace yourself, because I’m going to go on a bit of a rant here. I didn’t HATE the concept of Joey and Rachel. That’s not to say I loved it, or even liked it all that much, but I wasn’t incensed by it like so many others were. In fact, it actually kind of captivated my attention.

好了振作起來，因爲我還要繼續在這誇誇其談呢。我並不排斥喬伊和瑞秋相戀。雖說我也不愛這個情節，甚至談不上喜歡，但我對此並不像其他人那麼憤怒。事實上，它多少吸引了我的注意。

Now, I am speaking to you as a diehard Ross and Rachel fan. That being said, during the storyline arc that was Joey becoming unexpectedly infatuated with Rachel, being rejected (very kindly and compassionately I might add) by Rachel and eventually having his feelings reciprocated by her was both engaging and relatable. In my opinion, during the last remaining seasons of friends, Ross and Rachel still loved each other but had relegated themselves to the idea that, if their relationship hadn’t worked at this point, maybe it really just wasn’t meant to be. Meanwhile, Rachel had spent years developing a close bond with Joey, who was also her roommate for a period of time and was her shoulder to lean on (other than Ross and the rest of the gang) when she was pregnant with Ross’s child due to what the two had considered to be a random hookup. When you get that close and spend that much time with someone, both of you are single and you also both happen to be really good looking, isn’t attraction sort of inevitable?

現在，我要作爲羅斯和瑞秋的鐵桿粉絲來說道說道。話雖這麼說，在故事情節發展中，喬伊意外地迷上了瑞秋，但被瑞秋拒絕（我得補充一下，拒絕得非常溫柔且不失同情），而最後瑞秋又迷戀上了喬伊，這樣的情節其實很有吸引力並且能產生共鳴。我認爲，在《老友記》的最後幾季中，羅斯與瑞秋仍然愛着彼此，但他們都認爲，如果他們的關係在這個時候還沒有發展，那或許就是命中註定沒有結果。與此同時，瑞秋在這幾年裏逐漸與喬伊建立起親密的關係，倆人還曾做了一段時間的室友。在她和羅斯一次偶然地意亂情迷之後，懷上了羅斯的孩子，此時喬伊又成了她可以依靠的肩膀（除了羅斯和其他人之外）。當你和某個人長期親密相處、並且兩人又都是單身的俊男靚女時，相互吸引難道不是必然的嗎？

I think so, and apparently so did the series’ writers and producers. However, for Aniston and LeBlanc, the storyline was just plain icky.

我覺得理所當然，顯然電視劇的編劇和製作人也是這麼想的。但是，對安妮斯頓和勒布朗來說，這個情節十分討厭。

In an interview with The Guardian, co-creator David Crane spoke of the costars’ reticence in taking on a Rachel/Joey coupling.

在接受《衛報》（The Guardian）採訪時，編劇之一大衛·克拉尼表示，兩位主演在表演瑞秋和喬伊親密的時候都很無語。

“’Jennifer [Aniston] and Matt [LeBlanc] were very uncomfortable with that; they thought it was incestuous,’ says Kauffman. ‘We said: Because it’s so wrong, that makes it right, and it worked because it allowed us to show Joey in a new, heartbroken light,’ says Crane, which is true, sort of. At least they dropped that storyline fairly swiftly and soon after gave the show the Ross’n’Rachel finale the fans wanted.”

“‘詹妮弗和馬特對此都很不適；他們感覺這像亂倫’，考夫曼說。克拉尼說：‘我們認爲，正因爲這樣大錯特錯，所以它才正確、有價值，因爲這樣我們才能用一種嶄新的、悲傷的角度來表現喬伊’。這有幾分道理。至少他們很快就放棄了這個情節，並在最後讓粉絲們如願以償——羅斯和瑞秋終於在一起了。

Well, at least they didn’t milk that story for too long.

好吧，不管怎麼樣他們都沒讓這個情節發展太長時間。