Don’t mess with Kaley Cuoco!
Kaley Cuoco arrives at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice Awards at the Barker Hangar on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018, in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
The “8 Simple Rules” star isn’t afraid to name names. While on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast, Cuoco revealed the bad experience she had with none other than Rose McGowan.
Cuoco joined the cast of “Charmed” for its final season, and she now says some of the cast members were more excited to be working with her than others. She first met Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs, and McGowan while shooting promo photos for the series. “I’m joining their family photo, and I’m 21, I’m the hottest I’ve ever been, by the way,” Cuoco recalled before telling “the loveliest story about Alyssa Milano.”
Kaley Cuoco arrives at the 58th annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center on Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
“I’m so freaking nervous,” she began. “It’s on their lunch break. They’re all in the corners eating. I walk in, Alyssa Milano sees me, and she got up, ran over to me, and welcomed me to the show, gave me the biggest hug in the world, so happy, so kind. I will never forget that.”
So one cast member was excited for Cuoco to join the cast. As for the others “Rose? Maybe not as happy,” the “Based on a True Story” actress admitted. “I still don’t know if she liked me. I don’t know. But Alyssa was amazing. I was terrified. It’s a weird thing coming into a show in year eight, and I only did the one season.”
In this May 1, 2019, file photo, Johnny Galecki, from left, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch, cast members of the TV series “The Big Bang Theory,” pose at a hand and footprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. “The Big Bang Theory” made its way into the annals of the Nobel Prizes in real life. The announcement, Oct. 8, 2019, that a trio of scientists had won the physics Nobel started off with an unlikely reference: the opening lines of “The Big Bang Theory.” (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)
Cuoco learned an important lesson from Milano’s treatment that she carried into her work on “The Big Bang Theory.” The CBS sitcom filmed for 12 years, and Cuoco said she was always acutely aware of how strange it must have been for new actors to join the show when the cast was already so familiar with each other.
Kaley Cuoco arrives at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards, Sept. 12, 2022, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Cuoco, star of “The Flight Attendant” and “The Big Bang Theory,” posted to Instagram on Saturday, April 1, 2023, that she and fellow actor Tom Pelphrey now have a daughter named Matilda Carmine Richie Pelphrey. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
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