You Won't Believe What the Cast of "The Big Bang Theory" Looks Like Now

Robert Wu as Tam Nguyen

Tam Nguyen appears in both Young Sheldon and The Big Bang Theory. The Vietnamese-American is Sheldon's only friend in Young Sheldon. In The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon and Tam have not spoken for 20 years because Tam did not move to California with Sheldon.

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The More You Know

  • The Jeffersons: For two years, Marla Gibbs, who played Florence, kept her job at United Airlines in customer service while simultaneously filming for the show. Sometimes people would recognize her voice over the phone.
  • The Cosby Show: Sondra was almost played by Whitney Houston instead of Sabrina Le Beauf...but she turned down the role to pursue music.
  • One of the most influential TV series of all time, Star Trek broke several boundaries, including showing the first interracial kiss on television—between Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura—in the 1968 episode "Plato's Stepchildren."
  • The West Wing: The longest "walk and talk" scene the show ever shot was three minutes long, took half the night to shoot, and involved around 500 extras.
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