Annie Potts Reminisces On Her Season 1 Bond With The Cast Of Young Sheldon – Looper

During the 100th episode celebration for “Young Sheldon” in 2022, Entertainment Tonight asked Annie Potts whether or not the passage of time has been noticeable to her. “The children have grown up,” Potts observed, “but I like to think of when they were little and that first season. And they were always just always in my lap, kissing me and holding my hand and playing with my fingers and telling me they loved me all the time.”

Those days may be gone, but it appears that the familial closeness between Iain Armitage, Raegan Revord, and Potts continues onward. In a 2018 Variety interview, Potts spoke fondly about Armitage, whose family happens to live close to where she resides for the series. “As fate would have it, when I started working on the show I was renting a house not far from where Iain and his mother were renting a house, so we were sort of neighbors and we started seeing a lot of each other off-set — playing together and taking walks together,” Potts explained. She further elaborated on how important it was for adult actors to foster a safe but fun work environment for the main child actors due to their young age. In 2020, Revford told Pop Culturalist that she and Potts lived close by and spent time together away from the show as well.

Even if you think this season ought to be the last “Young Sheldon” outing ever produced, that’s an awfully sweet extended family they have, and it’s all thanks to the sitcom’s existence.