News culture “I almost strangled myself” The highest-paid actress on TV with Big Bang Theory had a difficult start in this cult fantasy series

Culture news “I almost strangled myself” The highest-paid actress on TV with Big Bang Theory had a difficult start in this cult fantasy series

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An actress with a very lucrative career…

Long considered an inferior version of cinema, TV series have enjoyed a huge resurgence in popularity in recent years. Today, certain productions like Game Of Thrones, Stranger Things, breaking Bad Or The Mandalorian sometimes even require a budget higher than that of certain films and bring in at least as much money to the studios that produce them. But even before big-budget fantasy series took center stage again, some sitcoms were already so popular that the actors and actresses who starred in them were among the richest in Hollywood.

This was the case, for example, with the casting of the comedy series The Big Bang Theorywhose success was such during its broadcast between 2007 and 2019 that it was difficult to compete with it. As of 2014, the main trio of Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons and Kaley Cuoco earned no less than a million dollars per episode filmed, making the actress playing the character of Penny the highest paid on American television. Since then, even if the series ended a few years ago, Kaley Cuoco continues to have important roles and awards thanks in particular to her work in the series The Flight Attendant or even his interpretation of Harley Quinn in the eponymous animated series. But did you know that she also starred in a cult fantasy series from the 2000s?

…despite a difficult start in a cult fantasy series

Before becoming world famous thanks to her role as Penny in The Big Bang Theory, Kaley Cuoco had already been able to play an important character in a very well-known series from the 2000s. The most nostalgic surely remember it, but she had in fact played the character of Billie Jenkins In Charmed, the famous fantasy series broadcast between 1998 and 2006. As a reminder, the latter recounted the adventures of the Halliwell sisters, witches united by the Power of Three living in a mansion in San Francisco. They then fought wizards, demons and other miscellaneous things that had the gift of appearing in their city. While the audience will certainly more easily remember the characters of Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Paige, it may be necessary to remember that Billie Jenkins appeared in the eighth and final season. So just 21 years old, Kaley Cuoco seemed to have a little trouble handling the stunts of this important role:

I thought it would be easy, but it wasn’t. I got caught in the wires so many times while doing my pirouettes that I almost strangled myself.

With powers revolving around the projection and distortion of reality, Billie Jenkins’ character regularly ended up in the air, which inevitably meant scenes that were a little difficult to shoot. In any case, this is what the actress herself admitted in Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast a few years ago. Fortunately for her, that did not prevent her from shining throughout the season and from being able to participate in the conclusion of this cult fantasy series. A year later, she continued with The Big Bang Theory, making her one of the highest paid actresses on American television.. If you want to see Kaley Cuoco in The Big Bang Theory again, the entire series is available on Netflix. To see her in Charmed, you will have to turn to Amazon Prime Video.