'The Big Bang Theory' star Jim Parsons on why now is a good time to leave the popular sitcom
“The Big Bang Theory” star Jim Parsons, who plays Sheldon Cooper on the popular sitcom spoke with Entertainment Weekly about the show’s final season and why he feels it’s the right time to leave the show.
Now that “The Big Bang Theory” is winding down in its final season, actor Jim Parsons is already lining up a new job, this time at Netflix.
“The Big Bang Theory” actor will have played Sheldon Cooper on the CBS breakout hit for 12 seasons, earning him four Emmy wins and a total of six nominations. He was also nominated for his work on the HBO series “The Normal Heart.” However, with Season 12 officially the last for the gang of intrepid nerds, the 45-year-old actor has lined up a new job as a producer for a Netflix series.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Parsons will team with “Will & Grace” writer Ryan O’Connell for an eight-episode series titled “Special” based on O’Connell’s 2015 book “I’m Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves." O'Connell will star in the semi-autobiographical story about a gay man with mild cerebral palsy who decides to rewrite his identity as an accident victim and the new life adventures that ensue from that decision.
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This isn’t the first time that Parsons and Netflix have been attached to each other in recent weeks. The “Big Bang” star has a role alongside Zac Efron in the biopic about famed serial killer Ted Bundy titled, “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.” The film was picked up by the streaming giant at Sundance.
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Meanwhile, Parsons off-camera exploits as a producer also include “Young Sheldon,” which he also provides the voice narration for. Parsons’ slew of additional projects are not surprising given comments he made about the ending of the series. After rumors circulated that he was a driving force in the decision to end “The Big Bang Theory” he told Entertainment Weekly that it just felt like the right time.
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“It’s both as complex and as simple as just feeling innately that it was time. It speaks to a lot of things, none of them bad. There is no negative reason to stop doing ‘Big Bang,’” he told the outlet. “It felt like we have been able to do this for so many years now, it doesn’t feel like there is anything left on the table. Not that we couldn’t keep doing it, but it feels like we’ve chewed all the meat off this bone.”
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