The Big Bang Theory ran for 12 seasons from 2007 until 2019 and followed physicists Sheldon and Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki), whose lives were changed when waitress-and-aspiring-actress Penny (Kaley Cuoco) moved into their apartment building, before she joined their social group, including Raj Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar), Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg), his wife Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz (Melissa Rauch) and Sheldon Hofstadter\u2019s spouse, Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik).<\/p>\n
Despite Parsons winning major accolades, including four Primetime Emmys and a Golden Globe, for his work on the sitcom, he said the personal toll was not worth it.<\/p>\n
Parsons said: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t do that again and for any amount of money … it was stressful and miserable at times. I made myself miserable.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cIt translated in part into a work ethic, but it was really just obsessive behaviour basically.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, I was disciplined. Yes, I had a good work ethic, but a lot of it was because it was kind of OCD in nature. I had a list of things basically in my head that I had to get done in order to be comfortable and know that I could do my job right, which I don\u2019t think was true.\u201d<\/p>\n
Because of this, the entertainer missed out on \u201ctons of life\u201d, but he would not change a thing because the show opened doors for him.<\/p>\n
Jon Dean wondered if a young actor could \u201cbalance things out\u201d in some way, but Parsons said: \u201cI don\u2019t honestly know.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cIn the same way, I can\u2019t go back. I wouldn\u2019t be where I am right now if I hadn\u2019t had that time of life and that somewhat self-tortured nature was part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Parsons knows he will always be associated with the role and is \u201cchanging my relationship to it\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIt\u2019s evolving, and it gets better all the time. What I feel is better, what I feel is healthier. It\u2019s not something that I think probably anybody, but I was certainly not equipped to, looking back.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you process what\u2019s happening as far as all these levels of this? And what class would you take or book would you read to prepare you for?\u201d<\/p>\n
Parsons declared fame as a \u201cvery odd psychological thing\u201d, but insisted: \u201cAnd this is not a complaint. This is just me having the grace to myself to admit it and look at it cleanly or as clearly as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cIt is a weird feeling to know people know you when you walk into a room, but you don\u2019t know them.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it\u2019s an even weirder feeling when, if I think about it, to go, oh, and most of them only know me as a character that I no longer even play any more and haven\u2019t for seven years now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Big Bang Theory ran for 12 seasons from 2007 until 2019 and followed physicists Sheldon and Leonard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6030,42611,8834,2837,156,692,16081,1362,156506,111,139,69,61813,312,223,32333,437,6736,33057],"class_list":["post-533006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-again","tag-bang","tag-big","tag-during","tag-entertainment","tag-he","tag-jim","tag-made","tag-miserable","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-parsons","tag-says","tag-the","tag-theory","tag-tv","tag-was","tag-wouldnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}