Mayim Bialik’s route to being cast as Amy Farrah Fowler is as distinctive and singular as the character herself. The casting audition did have a requirement that those trying out needed to have seen the show to have necessary prior knowledge. However, as indicated in Chapter 9, page 160 of Radloff’s book, Bialik notes she hadn’t seen “The Big Bang Theory” before her audition and actually thought it was a game show similar to “Jeopardy!”
“Someone told me I was mentioned on Big Bang in an earlier season (season one, episode thirteen, “The Bat Jar Conjecture”), so I thought it was a game show, like, I must have been on Jeopardy! as an answer. I literally Googled Jim Parsons the day of the audition ’cause they were like, “We want a female Jim Parsons.” That’s how I prepared for the audition — watching Jim Parsons on YouTube for thirty seconds.”
The “Blossom” icon’s quick thinking paid off when she was cast as Sheldon’s formidable counterpart, who unsurprisingly became his wife after their undeniable on-screen chemistry. In another odd turn of fate, her initial brain jump to “Jeopardy!” somewhat foreshadows her future hosting gig post-“The Big Bang Theory,” wrapping this funny story up with a neat anecdote.
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