‘Big Bang Theory’ creator opens up about Penny’s early character arch
The Massive Bang Concept creator Chuck Lore mirrored on Kaley Cuoco’s character Penny’s evolution all through the 12 season collection and her character arch within the early episodes.
Lorre and former Warner Bros. Tv Group chairman Peter Roth joined host Jessica Radloff on the very first episode of The Official Massive Bang Concept Podcast to debate the present’s journey from its unaired plot to incomes Emmy nominations.
Throughout the dialogue it was revealed that Penny was not within the authentic pilot.
Nonetheless, each Lorre and Roth agreed her look improved the primary episode and made the socially awkward scientist Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) characters simple to know.
Lorre admitted that the primary episode of the collection was nonetheless “deeply flawed” significantly when it got here to Penny. He shared that it took The Massive Bang Concept some time to get the character proper.
“Even after the second pilot, we had so many episodes to go before we started to understand that there was a brilliance to Penny’s character that we had not explored,” he mentioned. Lorre described her in early episodes as a “goofy blonde who says foolish things.”
Discussing how the character was greater than only a “dumb blonde”, he defined that she introduced “intelligence” to the story and the collection. “A kind of intelligence that was alien to them, an intelligence about people and relationships and family.”
He revealed that the present’s core thought was that whereas extraordinarily clever, Sheldon, Leonard and their scientist associates didn’t perceive how one can work together with different individuals. However Penny did.
“She brought a humanity to them that they were lacking. And that took a while to figure out,” Lorre mentioned. “In the beginning she was sadly one-dimensional in many ways, but the gift of a TV series that starts working is you get time to learn.”
The Massive Bang Concept was named the longest-running multi-camera collection in tv historical past with 10 Emmy awards out of 55 nominations all through its run.
