Lisa Kudrows Stunning Friends Revelation

suggested she was treated as if she were an afterthought compared to the rest of her Friends costars in a new interview.

While speaking with the Independent, she said that her costars — , , , the late and — eclipsed her in popularity while the series was still on television, even among the talent agency she was paying to find her choice roles.

'Nobody cared about me,' Kudrow claimed. 'There were certain parts of [my talent agency] that just referred to me as "the sixth Friend."'

As Friends became a megahit starting with its second season, several of her costars were able to leverage that success to secure choice film roles, but Kudrow thought the same kinds of deals eluded her.

'There was no vision for me, and no expectations about the kind of career I could have,' she said. 'There was just, like, "Boy, is she lucky she got on that show."'

Despite feeling unappreciated earlier in her career, Kudrow has beyond Friends, including on her twice-revived HBO series The Comeback.

Kudrow, who co-created the series, was joined for the interview by her fellow co-creator, Michael Patrick King.

He was astonished to hear that she wasn't drowning in offers amid the success of Friends, and he pointed out that she was also the first member of the cast to win an Emmy (for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1998).

According to Kudrow, it was only when she starred as the wife of a psychiatrist treating a mob boss in the 1999 comedy Analyze This — which costarred Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal — that she began to get more compelling offers.