Friends star Lisa Kudrow has shared the darker side of her time on the hit sitcom, revealing that the female cast faced “intense” scrutiny from its mostly male writers’ room. Kudrow, 62, is best known for starring as free spirit Phoebe Buffet in all 10 seasons of the comedy, which has become one of the highest-grossing TV shows of all time since it first aired in 1994. Over twenty years on from Friends ’ finale, Kudrow admitted in a new interview that there was “mean stuff going on behind the scenes” in the writers’ room, which was mostly men and made up of 12 to 15 staff members. David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc on ‘Friends’ (NBC) “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 f***ing read? She’s not even trying. She f***ed up my line,’” she told The Times on Thursday (23 April).…