The Canadian Prime Minister paid tribute to Matthew Perry. Justin Trudeau knew the actor, who played the character Chandler Bing in the hit sitcom “Friends,” well. The two men, who were two years apart, had attended the same school. “The passing of Matthew Perry is sad and heartbreaking. I will never forget our schoolyard games, and I know that people around the world will not forget the joy you brought them. Thanks for all the laughs, Matthew. You were loved, and you will be missed,” wrote the head of the Canadian government on X (formerly Twitter).
Found dead at his home on Saturday at the age of 54, Matthew Perry was born in Massachusetts in the northeast of the United States in 1969, to Canadian and American parents. He was raised between Montreal and Los Angeles. His father is an actor, his mother is a Canadian journalist who worked for former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
“We beat him up”
Invited by Jimmy Kimmel on the set of the “late show”, the actor revealed in 2017 that he had hit young Justin Trudeau at school. “He excelled in sports where me and my friend were not good, so out of pure jealousy, we beat him up,” he said. “I’m not proud of it, it’s terrible, I was a stupid kid. Besides, I think that at one point I tried to transform this beating into a cuddling session. »