This unique talent helped Kaley Cuoco learn all her lines for The Big Bang Theory

Every actor has a process when it comes to learning their lines and performing their roles — and apparently, on “The Big Bang Theory,” Kaley Cuoco had a particularly interesting process. especially, Her time as the original heroine of the show is Penny It was basically easy, and it drove some of her co-stars and co-stars crazy (in the nicest way possible) — and she likely came armed with a photographic memory.

Cuoco and co-stars haven’t specifically told Jessica Radloff — who wrote the 2022 book?The Big Bang Theory: The definitive inside story of the epic hit series” – that Cuoco has a photographic memory, but that’s almost certainly implied by the fact that people who worked with Cuoco say she barely touched her script. As show creator Chuck Lorre said, “Callie would do a cold read and knock it out of the park. She was flying by the seat of her pants, but she never rested on her laurels. It was always working. You make it look easy, and that’s part of the genius. That’s when you know there’s a lot of work going on.”

Former Warner Bros. president Peter Roth, who was incredibly involved in The Big Bang Theory and often spent time on set, agreed. “I sat at every table read across from Jim (Parsons, who played Sheldon Cooper) and Kelly,” he recalls. “I remember going to Callie and saying, ‘When you get scripts, you have to spend a lot of time re-reading them and illuminating them,’ and she said, ‘No, I never read them.’ I said, ‘Wait a minute, are you telling me these are cold reads?’” And she said, “Yes, it’s just something I do.” I swear, if I saw Kaley Cuoco at that table reading, her timing was so perfect.

One can imagine that watching Kaley Cuoco effortlessly navigate through dense, dialogue-heavy scenes on The Big Bang Theory was frustrating, especially since her character didn’t have to mention scientific facts very often. Even when the writers tricked her into doing it, she pulled it off, according to her co-star, on-screen boyfriend-turned-husband, and real-life boyfriend Johnny Galecki (who played Leonard Hofstadter on the series). Galecki also said their colleague Simon Helberg, who played Howard Wolowitzwas mystified by Cuoco’s operation.

“Oh, it was so annoying,” Galecki told Jessica Radloff. “I remember there was a letter the writers wrote as a challenge to her, and it was at least a full page, if not more, and it was all physics jargon and she just mastered it. As Simon once said, she doesn’t even open the script, she just puts her hand over it and sucks it up by osmosis.” “And it’s amazing.”

Perhaps the craziest part of Galecki’s memories is what was happening at Koko’s house. “I would go to her house and walk through the gate, and I would find three feet of scripts piled high from the production assistants throwing them over the gate,” Galecki revealed. “And you never opened it! I mean months.”‘ The value of the texts placed in her yard. Yet she always knew her lines. I would like to study those lines a lot. Whatever Kali’s process is, or sometimes lacks in, she knows exactly what will make things shine and stand out, just through her own instincts. “It’s an anomaly.”

As far as Kaley Cuoco is concerned, the whole thing is pretty funny — which makes sense considering what she’s like barely She had to prepare for her scenes – although she also said that Chuck Lorre was still skeptical about the whole thing. “Chuck still didn’t believe me when I told him I didn’t prepare for our table reads,” Cuoco said in Jessica Radloff’s book. “I even said to him once: ‘I’m sorry, do you think that after filming on Tuesday night I will go home and rehearse the script on Wednesday?’ He’s like, “Yeah, I guess so?” I said, “Well, that’s not the case, I hate to break it to you!”

But realistically, Coco said she had done so many rehearsals as Penny that it was easy to learn the dialogue — and that she really felt Related to her personality. “The detailed version is that our scripts wouldn’t change much from the time we got them to the time we shot the episode, so we would rehearse as the week went on, and then we would block it out on Monday, and it would seep into my memory of all of that,” Cuoco said. “And also, I knew Penny very well.” And I knew what she was going to say before I read it. I was myself in Penny, and she was a part of me.”

“The Big Bang Theory,” including Cuoco’s breakout performance as Penny, is now streaming on Max.