Friends star Lisa Kudrow has criticised the writers of the sitcom, alleging that they were “brutal” to cast members and discussed “sexual fantasies” about female stars. Speaking in a new interview with The Times , the star claimed she had to endure some “mean stuff” from the writing staff who were “mostly men,” during her 10-season run on the NBC sitcom. Kudrow, who starred as Phoebe Buffay in the show, said the writers often reprimanded the cast for forgetting lines. “There was definitely mean stuff going on behind the scenes,” Kudrow alleged. “Don’t forget we were recording in front of a live audience of 400, and if you messed up one of these writers’ lines or it didn’t get the perfect response they could be like, ‘Can’t the bitch fucking read? She’s not even trying. She fucked up my line.’” She added that, in the writers’ room, “the guys would be up late discussing their sexual fantasies about Jennifer Aniston and Courteney [Cox].…