“More beautiful than I expected”: When Jim Parsons made his feelings known about reprising his TBBT role in Young Sheldon’s finale

After narrating Young Sheldon for seven seasons, Jim Parsons made a physical appearance on the sitcom in the finale episode. The actor played the nerdy genius Sheldon Cooper across 12 seasons of The Big Bang Theory from 2007 to 2019.

Five years later, he got to reprise his role in the spin-off and prequel, as it was revealed in the finale that adult Sheldon was narrating the story while writing his memoir. Ahead of the Young Sheldon series finale, Jim Parsons had an interview with Entertainment Tonight in March 2024, where he revealed how he felt about reprising his iconic role after all those years.

The actor said the experience was even more beautiful than he had expected, as the creators were able to incorporate him and Mayim Bialik, who played his wife Amy, naturally into the story:

“It was even more beautiful than I expected it to be. One of the reasons I was excited to do it is because what they wrote is so sweet, and I think they worked Mayim and I into that show so beautifully. I hope everyone agrees.”

Jim Parsons once opened up about reprising Sheldon Cooper’s role in the Young Sheldon finale

During the interview, Jim Parsons also highlighted the differences between the filming of The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon, stating that while the former had a multi-camera setup, the latter is a single-cam sitcom, which made the experience even more special:

“But also for us, the way that they tape — because they’re a single-camera show and we’re multicamera — the whole look of the show was a really special experience.”

“To get to go with Mayim, in a world we’re really guests and revisit these characters a little older, just a completely different circumstance. We’re older and we haven’t seen these people. It just felt different, but it felt really, really sweet.”

Talking about whether it was easy for him to slide into the role of Sheldon Cooper once again, Parsons revealed that it was surprisingly not the case. The actor said that when he reached the sets of Young Sheldon, it took him some time to get into the character again after a gap of five years:

“We finished our first read-through, we didn’t tape it. We just went in and felt around the set, and Mayim nailed it when she walked back and said, ‘Uh, I thought I’d feel a lot more confident than this.’ I said, ‘Me, too.’”

“I really thought it’d be like putting on a pair of old shoes and then eventually it was, but not for about an hour or so. And I was like, ‘Do I still know how to talk like this?’ It was weird.”

Parsons also served as an executive producer on Young Sheldon. In the series finale, it is revealed that the adult Sheldon is living in suburban Los Angeles with his family, which includes his wife, Amy, and their two kids. He has been writing a memoir recalling his childhood, which explains why he was narrating the prequel’s events.

In Young Sheldon, the child version of Sheldon Cooper is played by Iain Armitage. The rest of the cast includes Zoe Perry as Mary Cooper, Lance Barber as George Cooper Sr., Raegan Revord as Missy Cooper, Montana Jordan as Georgie Cooper Jr., and Annie Potts as Connie Tucker.

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Young Sheldon is available to stream on Max.

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