TBBT Creator Imposed a Harsh (& Controversial) Rule on Cast Back in 2010s

Launched back in 2007, The Big Bang Theory is to this day one of very few examples of extremely successful sitcoms that never lost a grain of its popularity even by the time the show eventually released its final season in 2019.

Despite the nerdy series’ run being over for a while now, fans never forgot it. Many people keep rewatching The Big Bang Theory every so often, mostly still attracted to the leading cast’s incredibly smooth dynamics and chemistry.

That said, the fan-favorite show’s key to success has not that much to do with the compelling plot or fascinating characters, but rather with a rule that all of the lead actors had to stick to right up to the sitcom’s definite end. Fair to say, that wasn’t a very easy task either.

Ever since its first season kicked it off, The Big Bang Theory suddenly became a synonym for a perfectly assembled cast. Viewers were quick to notice how well all the actors looked together on the screen, making it possible to believe that they all had been the same group of best friends in real life.

However, at some point things got more complicated since The Big Bang Theory’s main cast that includes Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki and others turned into the biggest TV stars of the moment and had been receiving piles of new job offers that would bring them to an even higher level of fame.

This pretty much expected turn of events came as a real threat to the show and its smooth continuous run, which eventually made The Big Bang Theory’s co-creator Chuck Lorre come up with a specific request for all of the leading actors on set.

As Lorre himself once revealed, he had to have a big talk with the show’s stars urging them to do their best to keep the dynamics they had created as long as the series was airing on TV, and that request included a restriction that everyone had to keep in mind.

Lorre suggested that the actors didn’t rush things in their solo career and kept prioritizing the show which would later on pay off and bring them millions of dollars.

Though it surely was quite a challenge since many of the cast members started getting more job opportunities after showing up in the series, they still did what they were told to by remaining in the show and making it their number one job task.

Years later, it’s pretty clear that this sacrifice was definitely worth it.