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Inside Kaley Cuoco & Johnny Galecki's Big Bang Theory Romance
This quality volition marque you say, "Bazinga!"
According to an upcoming Big Bang Theory oral history, instrumentality favourite histrion Kaley Cuoco nearly didn't nab a starring relation astatine all. The publication reveals that the aviator primitively featured a pistillate pb called "Katie" who was the antithesis of Cuoco's Penny. Instead of being a Midwestern optimist, Katie was "cynical, down connected her luck, and off-putting," according to an Oct. 6 nonfiction from The Hollywood Reporter.
And who was successful enactment to play Katie? While Cuoco auditioned for the role, it wasn't fixed to her due to the fact that she was excessively bubbly. Instead, Jim Parsons read with histrion Marisa Tomei while she was auditioning for the part.
"I work with Marisa Tomei," Parsons shared successful the book. "I retrieve going to the snack country aft we were done and telling [casting directors] Ken [Miller] and Nikki [Valko], 'I've ne'er been successful idiosyncratic else's audition before!' And they said, 'Well, she was benignant of truly auditioning you.' And I went, 'Oh, that makes sense.' But ohio my gosh, what a antithetic satellite that would person been."
American Pie's Tara Reid and Saved by the Bell's Elizabeth Berkley went up for the relation arsenic well. But the portion of Katie yet went to Amanda Walsh aft different actress, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, did an unsuccessful array work and was thought to person brought a "darkness" to the relation that didn't work, according to Valko.
The archetypal pilot, which besides starred Iris Bahr successful the relation of "Gilda," a chap idiosyncratic harboring a crush Johnny Galecki's Leonard who erstwhile had enactment with Sheldon astatine a Star Trek convention, was yet scrapped and reworked without Katie and Gilda.
And this isn't the only Big Bang Theory on-set concealed that's been revealed by the upcoming oral history, The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series by Jessica Radloff. Cuoco and Galecki quietly dated from 2008 to 2010, and recalled their romance successful the caller book.
"All the scenes up until we really got unneurotic successful existent life, it was evident determination was ever thing there," Cuoco shared. "There was chemistry, and we were crushing connected each other. That was the full archetypal play until we really got unneurotic for real."
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For much behind-the-scenes details, cheque retired The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series, which comes retired Oct. 11.
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