In the final of the series of “Young Sheldon” – broadcast on CBS in May 2024 – Jim Parsons reappeared in person to play Sheldon Cooper, but old. Old Sheldon, if you want. It was a welcome surprise for fans of “The Big Bang Theory”, the show that generated “Young Sheldon”, “ A prequel where Sheldon Cooper is played by Iain Armitage growing in the fictitious city of East Medford, Texas. The youngest Sheldon goes through a lot, and at the end of the series, he faces his most difficult challenge to date His father George Cooper Sr. (Lance Barber) dies. During the final of the series, Sheldon thinks of losing his father … and points out that he also has children, putting all this in perspective. “For a long time, I focused on my father’s shortcomings,” he said in the last episode of the show. “Now that I have his age and that I have children to me, I realize that he was just a person who was doing his best, and he did a lot. I didn’t say it to his funeral but I can say it now. I loved my father, I will miss it forever.”
Wait – Sheldon and his wife Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik) have children?! Not only do we learn that they have a son And A girl, but we also learn that the name of the son is Leonard and he plays hockey (at the Dam of Sheldon). The couple also has a girl, and even if we do not learn their name in this episode, entitled “Memoir”, Sheldon apparently takes theater lessons with them. So how old are these children now?
“We do not say, but their children in our minds are probably 11 or 12 years old,” said showrunner and creator Steve Molero, who also worked on “The Big Bang Theory” Charm In an interview after the end of the series. “So, we are probably five or six years in the future from now on. But it is not specified.”
Jim Parsons almost did not appear at all in the final of Young Sheldon
This moment with Sheldon and Amy in the final of “Young Sheldon” where they talk about their own children is, roughly, a perfect way to put an end to the prequel series … And according to Jim Parsons, it did not even go. In an interview People magazine In the wake of the final, Parsons said he was extremely worried to go back to play SheldonNot wanting to exceed his welcome and uncertain whether he wanted to play Sheldon Cooper again (apart from the voiceover he provided for the series).
“I felt a slight hesitation when they first asked for the first time, as I thought, I don’t really want to go and revisit the character,” admitted to the exit. “But the way they wrote it was, I thought so beautiful that it ended up being like this additional little coda or anything about my experience with the character. It was this gift from a second layer of losing it in a way that I had never seen coming, and it was a real treat.”
With all this in mind, it is beautiful that Parsons decided to come back, and according to Steve Molero and his colleague Showrunner Steve Holland, it was also phenomenal for the creative team. “It was wonderful,” Molaro said in the aforementioned glamor interview when he was asked what it was to welcome Parsons and Mayim Bialik to their roles. “We interact with Jim all the time because he is the narrator of our show … But to see him as Sheldon on the set with Mayim, it was emotional and surreal and exciting. It was the best day.”
“These are so good actors and so intelligent to watch, so seeing the choices they make at every moment was really fun to watch,” added Holland. “There is a physicality in Sheldon, in the way Jim has always played, and it is different than having him do the voices off. Seeing him in person really brings the character.”
“Young Sheldon”, including the final where we see Amy and Sheldon come back and talk about their invisible children, now broadcasts on Max and Netflix.
