Young Sheldon’s Parents Also Play A Parental Role On The Set – Looper

In conjunction with the release of “Young Sheldon” Season 3, Mashable spoke with both Zoe Perry and Lance Barber, who portray Sheldon’s mom and dad respectively on the “Big Bang Theory” prequel. At one point in their discussion, Mashable asked the duo if the show’s younger actors ever solicit acting advice from them. Barber half-jokingly replied that the opposite is true, and the younger actors are so skilled that he and the rest of the adult cast will go to the kids for acting advice.

Perry then followed this up by noting that, although the young cast typically doesn’t require help with acting, she and Barber do still parent them in other ways. “By virtue of them being kids, we do kind of stand in as parental figures when we’re on set,” she said.

“We might give them examples of, say, behaving in a professional environment because that’s a strange environment for a 10-year-old,” Barber added.

In an interview about the show’s 100th episode, which aired the first half of 2022, co-creator Steve Molaro explained to Variety that the show’s very tone changed as its child actors aged into young adults. Presumably, then, just as the growth of its young stars is affecting the show’s content, Barber and Perry’s parental guidance is playing less of a part on set too, the more familiar with the process of filming Iain Armitage and co. become.