Those responsible for young sheldon They wanted Reba McEntire to return for the final episodes, to reprise the role of June, but it doesn’t look like this cameo is going to happen. The one that is confirmed is one of many more subtle. Octavia Spencer, the actress who won an Oscar for Maids and ladieswill reappear in this comedy universe after having participated in the second season of The big bang theory.
His first intervention was broadcast in October 2008 when The big bang theory It was not yet the audience phenomenon it became. She was the woman at the counter to whom Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) was outraged by the driver’s license exam. The episode garnered 9.3 million viewers, nothing compared to the 20 million it garnered, becoming for many the successor to Friends.
Octavia Spencer’s first intervention was in 2008 in ‘The Big Bang Theory’, when she had not yet won the Oscar.
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In the episode of young sheldon which is titled Community service and the key to a happy marriageFor the record, it doesn’t seem like he’s going to play the same character. She will be the agent who must ensure that Connie (Annie Potts) completes the 140 hours of community service that the grandmother of young Sheldon (Iain Armitage) tries to get rid of by pretending that, for her age, she is much worse than she really is. this.
This is a curious tribute for an actress closely linked to Chuck Lorre, the co-creator of The big bang theory and young sheldonboth for his participation in these two comedies and for the episode he did in Dharma and Greg in 2001, when she was still working as Octavia L. Spencer, and the recurring role of Regina she played in Momwith nine episodes between 2013 and 2015.
After ‘Dharma and Greg’, ‘Mom’ and ‘The big bang theory’, he repeats his collaboration with Lorre.
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Spencer, when he was in The big bang theory, She was not yet such a respected actress in Hollywood. It was not until 2012 that she won the Oscar for period comedy and it was not a sporadic milestone in her career: in 2017 she again opted for the statuette as a secondary actress for hidden figures and a year later The shape of water.
Between 2019 and 2023, he also got used to the role of protagonist on television after heading Truth be tolda thriller she produced with Reese Witherspoon.
