Simon Helberg talks ‘The Big Bang Theory’ season 8 and beyond, suggesting lines
While promoting his upcoming Indy film I Am I, Simon Helberg talked about The Big Bang Theory, the three year renewal and working on the set.
“It’s hard to imagine ever having something that tells you where you’ll be in years to come. It’s an incredibly rare thing to be a part of a show that has such an unbelievable following and is received so well, and has a network and studio that has such confidence in it,” Helberg says in the June 12 Collider interview.
“It’s not lost on me, how unusual that is, these days, especially. Actually, I believe that we were picked up for three seasons, right before this. As actors, we tend to usually have some issues with self-esteem and some need for validation, and it takes awhile for that fear of not having a job to go away. I certainly think that it looks like we’ll be around for a little while.”
Helberg has played Howard Wolowitz in 160 episodes on Big Bang, so fans want to know if he suggests lines for Howie.
“It’s just something that isn’t really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers write and the actors act. I’ve worked very differently before. There’s a lot of changing lines while we’re taping, and coming up with jokes, punching it up and rewriting scenes. My impulse is always to try to contribute, but very quickly, I felt that that wasn’t necessarily the way that this show worked. In some ways, it’s a great harmony. They are fantastic. It does take a little bit of courage to say, “Hey, how about this?,” but that’s just because they’re so great at what they do. It’s a pretty well-oiled machine. They provide us with such unbelievable words, and they’re so fast and they know the show so incredibly well, that there really aren’t many moments where I feel like I could add anything to what they bring to it.”
Simon confesses that the future isn’t clear as Big Bang will have three more seasons, not knowing what’s ahead for Wolowitz and company.
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[…] Helberg, who plays Howard Wolowitz and has appeared in 160 episodes of The Big Bang Theory, said in an interview Friday that even though the show has been renewed for not one but three more seasons, he, like […]