JamesG
02-25-2014, 02:23 PM
Memories from the Set: DJ Qualls on "The Big Bang Theory"
Qualls' performance as a grad student Sheldon hires to pretend to be his drug-addicted cousin wasn't the actor's first experience with the nerdy comedy.
"I studio-tested against Jim Parsons for that role. It came down to me and him. And they made us read, before all of the CBS studio executives, in front of each other," he says.
"He went before me. And I turned to Chuck Lorre afterward and I was like, 'I'm not going to get this part. I can't read.' And he was like, 'Oh no, you're not going to get this part – but you have to read.'"
The "horrifying" experience so affected Qualls that "that was the last time I tested."
http://tvline.com/2014/02/25/dj-qualls-legit-billy-nugent/#!5/dj-big-bang/
Qualls' performance as a grad student Sheldon hires to pretend to be his drug-addicted cousin wasn't the actor's first experience with the nerdy comedy.
"I studio-tested against Jim Parsons for that role. It came down to me and him. And they made us read, before all of the CBS studio executives, in front of each other," he says.
"He went before me. And I turned to Chuck Lorre afterward and I was like, 'I'm not going to get this part. I can't read.' And he was like, 'Oh no, you're not going to get this part – but you have to read.'"
The "horrifying" experience so affected Qualls that "that was the last time I tested."
http://tvline.com/2014/02/25/dj-qualls-legit-billy-nugent/#!5/dj-big-bang/