Annie Potts, who portrayed a younger version of Sheldon’s Meemaw on Young Sheldon, revealed how she felt about the show’s finale, disagreeing with how adult Sheldon remained "mean and unchanged" in Parsons' finale cameo.
The end of Young Sheldon — the seven-season-long Big Bang Theory Spinoff show — was rife with drama. Its abrupt ending was reportedly revealed to cast members in a Zoom call, with Potts saying she felt “blindsided” by the decision and went "full Meemaw” on the series’ producers.
She elaborated on these feelings in a book authored by Jessica Radloff titled Young Sheldon: The (Juicier-Than-Meemaw’s-Brisket) Inside Story of the Hit Comedy, where she described her reaction to Jim Parson’s cameo at the end of the final episode as a grown-up Sheldon.
According to Radloff’s book, Potts was “a little sad” about how Sheldon remained “mean and unchanged” as a character despite all the events of the prequel series.
“That broke my heart,” she told the author. “It was like, ‘Really? Still no responsibility?’ It was just selfishness. It’s just not how I wish to see Sheldon off into the world. …I thought the show could have ended [with young Sheldon] and not to the dreaded scene with Jim and Mayim as Sheldon and Amy revealing he was unchanged and unrepentant. That gave me a stomachache. It was like, ‘Who crashed our party?! Who invited you?'”
While most of the cast reportedly felt similarly burnt by the situation, Young Sheldon himself, Iain Armitage, said he was probably the only member who was actually happy that the show was finally over.
“Looking back now, it’s nostalgic-sad,” he said. “Like, I miss working at Warner Bros., I miss the crew and the people I love. I love the act of acting. I love doing it. It’s fun. But not really specific moments. More the overall thing.”
He went on to call the intense reaction to the show’s cancellation from his fellow castmates as “heavy and annoying and weird,” saying he wanted to be back in Virginia.
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