Of course, that can’t be verified, but if her words are to be believed, Mayim Bialik could hold the record for the shortest preparation time an actress has ever needed for a major audition: the 48-year-old would have needed 30 seconds (!) to create a first draft for her “The Big Bang Theory” character Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler will create designs, which she can present to the casting directors. Bialik had never seen an episode of the hit sitcom and her only directive was, “We want a female one.” Jim Parsons“.
So she watched a 30-second video of Sheldon Cooper on YouTube – and her idea for the character was complete. As is well known, their strategy worked. The creators were enthusiastic about her performance, and after her first small appearance in the third season was positively received, she was given a permanent spot on the series – and remained on board until the end of “The Big Bang Theory”.
This is how Mayim Bialik came to “The Big Bang Theory.”
Bialik, who recently hosted the extremely popular game show “Jeopardy!” ) or the horror film “The Halloween Monster”. But It was only through television that her career really took off: in the sitcom “BlossomShe played the eponymous teenager for five seasons. But after the show ended, she (seemingly) disappeared from the scene completely, focusing on voice roles for animated series while earning her PhD in neuroscience. The title of her dissertation: “Hypothalamic regulation associated with maladaptive, compulsive, affiliative satiety behavior in Prader-Willi syndrome.”
Her path from sitcom star to respected neuroscientist did not go unnoticed by the screenwriters of ‘The Big Bang Theory’, and so there is a scene in episode 13 of the first season in which Sheldon is kicked off his team at the annual ‘Physicists Superbowl’, whereupon Raj (Kunal Nayyar) suggests a replacement: ‘The actress who played ‘Blossom’ played. She’s smart, has a PhD in neuroscience or something.” When Bialik caught wind of the celebrity mention, she applied for a supporting role on the sitcom — and the rest is history…