Jim Parsons Recalls This Actress ALMOST starring In The Big Bang Theory Over Kaley Cuoco.
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According to a forthcoming Big Bang Theory oral history that will be released soon, the most popular actress Kaley Cuoco was close to not getting any leading roles at all. The book details that the pilot was originally starring the female lead “Katie” that was a complete opposite to Cuoco’s Penny. Instead of being an optimistic Midwestern positive person, Katie was “cynical, unhappy, and unattractive” According to an October. 6 story in The Hollywood Reporter.
Who was the next in line to be Katie? Although Cuoco tried out for Katie, the job was not assigned to her because she was too enthusiastic. In the end, Jim Parsons read with actor Marisa Tomei when her audition for the role.
“I read the book with Marisa Tomei,”” Parsons shared in the book. “I recall going into the cafeteria after the reading was over and telling the casting directors Ken Miller as well as Nikki [Valko] that I’ve not been to an audition before! They said”Well it was like she was realizing that she was auditioning you.’ I thought”Oh, that’s a good idea. sense.’ Oh my god, what a world different it would had been.”
American Pie’s Tara Reid and Saved by the Bell’s Elizabeth Berkley went up for the role too. The role of Katie was ultimately given to Amanda Walsh after another actress, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, had a failed table read and was believed to bring an “darkness” for the character, which didn’t work as per Valko.
The pilot that was the first also featured Iris Bahr in the role of “Gilda,” a fellow scientist with a crush on in Johnny Galecki’s Leonard who had a sexual relations with Sheldon at the Star Trek convention, was eventually scrapped and revised without Katie as well as Gilda.
It’s not the only Big Bang Theory on-set secret that’s been revealed in the forthcoming oral history book, The Big Bang Theory The Complete and inside Story of the Epic Hit Series written by Jessica Radloff. Cuoco and Galecki secretly dated between 2008 and 2010 and shared their love story in the book.
“All the drama that transpired until when we finally met as real people, it became evident there was something going on,” Cuoco shared. “There was chemistry and we were all in love with one another. This was our first season before we began to get together on a regular basis.”
