All of us have gross, bizarre habits. I am not going to jot down mine down right here, as a result of I am a girl and no person must know that, however we all know that we do. Sadly for Johnny Galecki, his “Massive Bang Principle” co-star Kunal Nayyar — who did in the end play Raj Koothrappali on the sequence after briefly being fired earlier than it started filming — has put all of Galecki’s soiled little secrets and techniques on blast. Properly, he is put not less than one on blast — particularly, the actually gross means that Galecki disposed of his chewing gum on the set of “The Massive Bang Principle.”
Throughout an look on the British present “Sunday Brunch” (through The Unbiased UK) in February of 2022 to advertise his present “Suspicion,” Nayyar talked a bit about how they filmed all these stairwell scenes earlier than revealing one thing unbelievably disgusting about Galecki. Requested about what was previous the stairwell set, Nayyar was fairly blunt: “Down there may be nothing. There is a wall there the place Johnny Galecki, for 12 years, would stick his chewing gum on. I am not joking.”
Not solely that, however Nayyar had a gross sales pitch: if you happen to actually, actually love Galecki as Leonard Hofstadter, you possibly can most likely discover a few of that gum on Google. (Perhaps. I’ve not confirmed this, and I am unsure I need to.) “So if any of you’re Johnny Galecki followers and also you need his dried chewing gum, I’m certain it is on the market someplace on the web. Welcome to Hollywood,” Nayyar joked. This does clear up one factor for me, I assume; seems Galecki does know learn how to chew like a human being, which I truthfully doubted as a result of how horrible he’s at “consuming” on digital camera.
Who did Kunal Nayyar and Johnny Galecki play on The Massive Bang Principle?
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Let’s again up for a second. Gross on-set habits apart, who did Johnny Galecki and Kunal Nayyar play on “The Massive Bang Principle?” Alongside Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, and Simon Helberg — who play Sheldon Cooper, Leonard’s eventual spouse Penny Hofstadter, and Howard Wolowitz — Galecki and Nayyar play Leonard Hofstadter and Raj Koothrappali, two of the present’s unique characters and two of Sheldon’s shut buddies. Within the present’s pilot, Penny strikes in throughout the corridor from Leonard and Sheldon, who share an house, and he or she instantly turns into an object of fascination among the many group. Leonard muses that their infants might be “good and delightful,” Howard is simply usually an enormous creep to and about Penny, and Raj is rendered utterly silent because of a very odd trait he is given by the writers (selective mutism round girls until he is drunk).
The 2 do develop quite a bit all through the present, although. Leonard stops treating Penny like an object and extra like an individual; as she turns into a respectable a part of the group, the 2 pursue a romance and in the end marry. Raj has a sequence of relationships the place he proves that he can speak in entrance of girls, however in an unsatisfying flip of occasions, he ends the sequence utterly alone. Due to their performances as Leonard and Raj, Galecki and Nayyar undoubtedly earned their respective locations within the sitcom corridor of fame — though now we all know that, when the cameras weren’t rolling, Galecki was simply grossing all people out along with his discarded gum.
“The Massive Bang Principle” is streaming on Max now.