This TBBT Guest Star Is Actually Cooler Than Sheldon’s Most Favorite Scientist Ever
The real-life physicist went from the legendary sitcom to working on last year’s biggest hit.
For more than ten years of its run on TV, The Big Bang Theory has succeeded in getting probably the most impressive collection of guest stars, with some of them being none other than Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Carrie Fisher, Stan Lee, Bob Newhart and many others.
As the show proceeded with more seasons over the course of the time, some of those stars got so involved in the storyline that showed up more than just once, considering that Sheldon’s forever favorite scientist, Stephen Hawking, was featured in seven episodes.
However, even with that long list of huge stars, The Big Bang Theory reached a whole new level when it got another famous physicist for one of the last season’s episodes, and Sheldon would definitely be freaking out right now.
The show’s season 12 episode 18, titled The Laureate Accumulation, finds Amy and Sheldon trying to reach out to some Nobel laureates to give them credit for the theory the couple elaborated, with Kip Thorne being one of those who the characters try to get in touch with.
Thorne is an actual real-life physicist and in fact a Nobel Prize winner for the observations he made regarding gravitational waves. Apart from the scientific field that Thorne has been in for decades, he’s also no stranger to pop culture, especially the movie industry, as he’s a frequent consulting professional on the sets of Christopher Nolan ’s films.
Thorne started collaborating with the proclaimed director back in 2014 when Nolan’s epic sci-fi drama Interstellar was released. The physicist was a great help for the production process that required a professional scientific take on the whole space-related matter.
Nolan got back to Thorne once again when the former started working on his nearly $1 billion hit movie Oppenheimer that was released worldwide last year.
According to the director, Kip Thorne was eventually the one to help the movie’s lead actor, Cillian Murphy, navigate his character’s behavior and manner of teaching during the seminars that Oppenheimer was giving at Princeton, as Thorne himself had met the famous scientist during his studies at the same university.
Thorne’s consulting eventually earned Cillian Murphy his first ever Academy Award and would surely give Sheldon Cooper an incentive to once again stand in line for hours to be among the first to watch Oppenheimer.