ASSOCIATED PRESS: Kaley Cuoco gets a bang out of 'Big Bang Theory'
By FRAZIER MOORE
November 14, 2012
"I know this sounds like it's not true," says Kaley Cuoco, "but as huge as the show is, it's just part of my life — not my whole life."
"The Big Bang Theory" is huge all right. Now in its sixth season (airing Thursdays on CBS at 8 p.m. EST), it reigns as TV's hottest sitcom, and now hotter than ever with an average 19 million viewers each week.
As virtually every viewer knows by now, "Big Bang" centers on a gaggle of geeky Cal Tech scientists, chief among them Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki), apartment mates who, by great good sitcom fortune, live across the hall from Penny, played by Cuoco. Penny aspires to be an actress but pays the rent by waiting tables at a Cheesecake Factory.
Unlike the boys, Penny is no genius. But neither is she a dumb blonde, which is key to the genius of "Big Bang."
"She's obviously not book-smart," says Cuoco, "but she's street smart and good-hearted and can make fun of herself. The producers never made her ditzy. Maybe she doesn't always get what the guys are talking about. But in that way she represents most of the world."
It was pretty smart to make Penny the "normal" character through whom the audience can enter the abstruse, brainy realm the guys occupy. At the same time, sexy Penny presides as a universal object of desire...
Kaley Couco and Johnny Galecki from The Big Bang Theory's 'The Holographic Excitation'
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE EPISODE TRAILER FOR THE BIG BANG THEORY'S 'THE 43 PECULIARITY' AIRING NOVEMBER 15, 2012 AT 8/7C ON CBS
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