Maculay Culkin Could've been Leonard, Kate Micucci Could've been Amy Farrah Fowler

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Before Johnny Galecki was cast as Sheldon’s extremely patient roommate Leonard, the producers pursued former Home Alone star Maculay Culkin.

“There’s a special ethereal quality to that actor that I thought might be great,” Big Bang co-creator Chuck Lorre shared in The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series.

Added fellow co-creator Bill Prady: “We had a terrific meeting with Macaulay… and then we heard that he had decided he wasn’t interested.”



Other Almost-Leonards:

Kevin Sussman, who would go on to play comic book store owner Stuart, was also up for the role of Leonard in the original 2006 pilot, as was John Ross Bowie (aka Barry Kripke), who came in to read not once, but twice.





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Prior to playing "The Big Bang Theory‘s" Lucy in Season 6, Kate Micucci auditioned for Amy Farrah Fowler.

“[She] auditioned before Mayim, and we thought she was terrific and really funny,” executive producer Steve Molaro said in The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series.

“And then Mayim [Bialik] came in, and aside from being awesome as well, [co-creator] Chuck [Lorre] loved that she actually had a PhD in neuroscience. It could have gone either way… but because Mayim could bring the authenticity to the science and to the intelligence of the character, Chuck was like, ‘I think that’s so cool. Let’s go with her.’”

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