"I don't think I heard any negative reviews. "Passing through Paris at the beginning of last summer, Johnny Galecki, 44, and Kunal Nayyar, 38, told us how happy they were in response to fans' reactions to the end of" The Big Bang Theory ", broadcast this Saturday March 28 on NRJ12 and available on the replay of the channel, in which they played for twelve years, two of the four main male roles.
In this series, which saw the light of day in September 2007 in front of more than 9 million Americans, and whose audiences have soared over the years across the Atlantic to exceed 20 million viewers in 2013, the first incarnates Leonard, a physicist who fell in love with his pretty neighbor Penny, whom he eventually married. The second lends his features to Raj, an Indian astrophysicist, an eternal romantic always in search of great love. In the United States, the 278th and 279th episodes, the last of the series, gathered 18.5 million fans on May 16, 2019.
“There were a lot of tears on the set of the last episode, admits Johnny Galecki. There were about 150 of us working on the series and each of us participated individually in the balance of this very fragile ecosystem, full of support, laughter. It is this environment that must be mourned. "And Kunal Nayyar added:" This plateau was a real sanctuary for me. Everyone there knew me, Kunal, and not me as Raj. I will miss it. "
"They woke up the next morning, their lives go on"
Tens of millions of fans around the world will also miss the series. For the interpreter of Raj, this popularity exploded in season 4, in 2010. "That year, we started to be rebroadcast several times a day on other channels, people started to recognize me on the street and I understood what it was like to be part of a popular series. "
"One day I went to see the studio managers to find out in which country The Big Bang Theory was the least watched," recalls Johnny Galecki. They thought I was going to offer to do interviews there to promote the series, but no, I was just looking for a place to spend a quiet vacation! "
If both have an endless admiration for the authors of "The Big Bang Theory", Johnny Galecki admits to having been surprised by an element of the last episode (attention spoiler). “I was very surprised by Penny's pregnancy. I had to re-read this script page three or four times to be sure I understood correctly. Because at the start of this last season, Penny had been very clear that she didn't want to have children. I also found it quite cool, because it is rare to see a woman who assumes this position on television. "
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For the rest, it was essential to keep the group of friends intact. “In the world of Raj, Sheldon, Leonard and Howard, they woke up the next morning, their lives go on. It could not be otherwise, ”says Kunal Nayyar. A life you can still rewind endlessly: seasons 1 to 11 are available on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.