It was a hard blow for the fans Jim Parsons his departure from “The Big Bang Theoryannounced – and the cult sitcom ended once and for all after twelve seasons. But even though the Sheldon Cooper actor longed for new challenges, not all actors from the still popular series felt the same way.
Kaley Cuoco, who played neighbor Penny on “The Big Bang Theory,” said she talked a lot with her co-star Johnny Galecki (Dr. Leonard Hofstadter) about whether there might be a way to continue the sitcom. “Did we want to do it? We really wanted it,” Cuoco told Variety.
In the same interview, she also revealed that series creator Chuck Lorre invited the crew of The Big Bang Theory to a meeting to announce Parsons’ departure – while she and Galecki thought until the last minute that it would be about season 13. ..
Cuoco elaborates further on the fateful meeting in the interview: “Jim said, ‘I don’t think I can go on.’ And I was so shocked that I said, ‘Go on with what?’ I didn’t even know what he was talking about. I looked at Chuck, ‘I thought we were… I’m completely shocked!'”
Kaley Cuoco could have easily played her leading role for a few more seasons, which would certainly have been in the best interest of the fans (who at least got some comfort with the spin-off prequel “Young Sheldon”). But Lorre has never made it a secret that he would let ‘The Big Bang Theory’ end if one of the ‘big three’ (read: Parsons, Galecki or Cuoco) threw in the towel. And so it happened.
When she thinks about “The Big Bang Theory,” she gets quite emotional, Cuoco says. On the other hand, after twelve full years in which she was missing in only two episodes, she can now turn to other projects – for example, the HBO thriller series “The Flight Attendant”, for which Cuoco could already receive several Golden Globe nominations. collect.
Here you can read again how Jim Parsons dealt with the fact that the news of his departure was not exactly received with enthusiasm by his co-stars: