Parsons agreed, saying that he felt he ended up having an amount of “power” that made him uneasy … and more to the point, he didn’t think Lorre and Steve Molaro really prepared him for how they’d approach the entire situation. “I was uncomfortable with how shocking moment was,” Parsons admitted. “When I talked to Chuck and Steve about it, and there was back-and-forth about when to get the group together, I did not really understand until we got in there, that it was going to be quite as definitive as it was. I didn’t know that no one was going to ask anybody, “How do you feel?” Not that I thought it should be my responsibility […] since it wasn’t going to involve me [should the show have gone forward]. And I would never have assumed that I had the power, frankly, to open a discussion like that.”
In the end, Radloff’s book details that the cast came to understand Parsons’ decision, and nobody placed any blame on him … but it definitely does seem like the announcement regarding the end of “The Big Bang Theory” could have been handled better.
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