Kaley Cuoco was speechless when he learned that Jim Parsons wanted to leave “The Big Bang Theory”.
Cuoco, who played Penny on the longtime sitcom, recently opened up to Variety about her time on “The Big Bang Theory” and how news of Parsons’ impending departure left her “in shock.”
“Jim said, ‘I don’t think I can go on,'” said Cuoco, 35. “And I was so shocked that I literally thought, ‘Continue with what?’ Like, I didn’t even know what he was talking about. I looked at [show creator] Mandrel [Lorre]: ‘Wow. I thought we were [filming season 13] – I’m so impressed now. ‘”
At the beginning of filming for season 12, Cuoco revealed a conversation he had with co-star Johnny Galecki about the prospect of filming a potential season 13: “’Did we want to do it?’ And we really did. “
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Kaley Cuoco was in ‘shock’ when she found out that Jim Parsons wanted to get away from ‘The Big Bang Theory’.
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After Parsons’ revelation, Lorre said: “We are all for one, one for all. And we will not do this without the entire team,” according to Cuoco.
“That was the only thing we all agreed on – we came together, we went out together,” she added.
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Parsons, 47, played Sheldon Cooper for 12 seasons on the show before finally deciding to quit – a decision that ended the show in 2019.
After the end of “The Big Bang Theory”, Cuoco assumed a prominent role as the main star and executive producer of the HBO Max series, “The Flight Attendant”.
In “The Flight Attendant”, Cuoco plays Cassie Bowden, a stewardess who drinks heavily and finds herself waking up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed with a dead man and not knowing what happened.
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Cuoco has now taken a leading role in the HBO Max series, ‘The Flight Attendant’.
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She said that after winning the rights to the book through a bidding war, she brought it to Warner Bros. and presented the idea.
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“I said, ‘I think this is a great character. I think this could be a really great show,” she explained on a virtual panel at the Television Critics Association in August. “And they brought me to [executive producer] Steve [Yockey] and then they brought us to [writer] Greg Berlanti and [producer] Sarah Shechter and it just kept going … And I still can’t believe we’re sitting here talking about it at TCA. “
Fox News’ Julius Young contributed to this report