During the 12 seasons of “The Big Bang Theory,” viewers occasionally met the parents and family members of the main characters, and those parents and family members were usually played by great actors. Laurie Metcalf plays Mary Cooper, the mother of Jim Parsons' Sheldon Cooper, and Tony and Emmy winner Christine Baranski makes a few appearances as Leonard's mother, Dr. Beverly Hofstadter. Benny's (Kaley Cuoco) parents are played by Kady Sagal (Cuoco and Sagal's sitcom “8 Simple Rules”) and Keith Carradine (“Revenge of the Nerds, Lizzie McGuire”).
So what's up with Howard Wolowitz, starring Simon Helberg? Are hear His mother, Mrs. Wolowitz, is off-screen (voiced by Carol Ann Suzy, who, like the character, passed away in 2014), but we never meet his father. According to Jessica Radloff's book “The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series,” showrunner Chuck Lorre is a Marvelous The idea of who he wants to play Howard's absent father.
Apparently, Lorre and his team wanted to hire former Beatle Ringo Starr. “With a fun conversation based on Simon's haircut and physical appearance, you could buy a genetic link to Richard Starkey,” Lorre said. “I think the idea started with Simon and it was a good idea. I think we pursued it to the point where we weren't sure. [from Starr’s team]. But if it weren't for Ringo, I wanted his impact to be such that we didn't really see him, but we saw the fact that he was absent from this character's life. “His absence is more important than playing the character.”
Simon Helberg had a fun idea that would have explained how Ringo Starr could be Howard's father.
In Jessica Radloff's book, Simon Helberg correctly thinks as They could have turned Ringo Starr into a story on “The Big Bang Theory” if he had said yes (and honestly, stranger things have happened; Starr himself appeared in the 2016 cult classic “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping “). Helberg Radloff said that he invented everything. That's how he thought it and that's how it would have been. In fact Fun.
“It would have been a really ridiculous twist to discover that Howard was actually the son of a Beatle on a wild night in the '70s when Mrs. Wolowitz and Ringo Rainbow darkened the room, but that never happens. “ Helberg said before joking that he will always have hope. “Basically, in 20 years I'll make my own 'Big Bang' fan fiction and sell it at Comic-Con. But yeah, we never met him.” In fact, not having anyone play Howard's father led to a very emotional episode in which he finds a strange memento of his absent father; Although Helberg is right, finding out that Howard is related to the drummer would have been more incredible. The most influential band in modern history.
Ultimately, Howard's fatherlessness helped shape Simon Helberg's character.
In the season 6 episode, “The Closet Reconfiguration,” Howard and his wife Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) discover a long-lost letter from their father while cleaning out a large pile of junk in their closet, but Howard is understandably a little lost. You are worried about what you will find if you read it. As a solution, his friends come up with something incredibly sweet: they all offer a different version of the menu. can If any of them are true, indicate without revealing which one is true.
While discussing this particular chapter and scene from Jessica Radloff's book, executive producer Steve Molaro talked about the missing Mr. He said this was a result of Chuck Lorre complaining at the idea of introducing Wolowitz.: “We've talked about it in the room many times or made up stories involving it, but it got to the point where Chuck didn't want to do it.” As for Simon Helberg, he said he was actually embarrassed that this had never happened.
“If I'm going to be brutally honest, I was disappointed that I didn't get to meet Howard's dad,” Helberg admitted. “Because they've painted this very complicated picture of that relationship, and they've forged this path that either leads to it or is a dead end, I felt in some ways that it was a missed opportunity to not have it. I think I need to know, because the writers came up with really smart, clever ways to tell these stories, and I felt creative, because when the writers really got into those nuanced, layered stories, they knocked it out of the park.”
“The Big Bang Theory” is now airing on Max, but to be clear, no one plays Howard's father, especially Ringo Starr.
