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The Big Bang Theory Claims THIS Lead Character Was One Dimensional At The Start And 'Took A While' To Be Angled in The Story
The Big Bang Theory co-creator, Chuck Lorre, spilled the beans over how the audience missed a crucial element in Penny’s character, portrayed by Kaley Cuoco.
The Big Bang Theory was one of the most loved sitcoms. While the fans might have watched the seasons and episodes over and over again, they still missed one crucial element about Kaley Cuoco’s character of Penny.
In the first episode of The Official Big Bang Theory podcast, the co-creator of the show, Chuck Lorre, revealed that the team had written and taped a pilot episode before Cuoco stepped in to play the character.
However, the previously penned scenes did not make it to the screen. The first pilot included the actresses Amanda Walsh and Iris Bahr, alongside the four leading men.
The reason behind scrapping off the already-written episode, and penning a new one was because the makers were not able to differentiate between the personalities of the ladies and the characters of Jim Parsons and Johnny Galecki.
Speaking on to the podcast, the showrunner elaborated on the statements and said, “The magic of Kaley was that Kaley’s character — as we figured this thing out on the fly — was amused by Jim Parsons and Johnny Galecki's characters and was not critical. If she got angry, it wasn’t harsh. The audience really responded to that.”
Lorre further added, “She was never judgmental about these characters. She was bemused by them, in fact. They brought morejudgment to her than she did ever of them. And I thought that was also an important difference between the character of what Penny brought versus the character of what Katie brought in the original unaired pilot.”
Furthermore, in the conversation, Lorre admitted that even after having studied Penny’s character in depth, it took him a lot more episodes to bring forth Cuoco’s role brilliance in front of the audience.
The Big Bang Theory ran on the CBS network for 12 seasons.
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