The Emmys are on Monday, meaning that Jim Parsons is gearing up for another potential award for playing Sheldon Cooper on CBS’ hit The Big Bang Theory. However, earlier this month, there was concern that the show’s new season might get off on the wrong foot because of a contract dispute. Now that the situation is solved, Parsons has finally spoken out about it.
Parsons and co-stars Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco were all looking for a pay raise and got it earlier this month. They will each be paid $1 million per episode and got the back-end profit deals they were hoping for. Once Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar got their raise as well, production on season eight started on Aug. 6.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly this week, Parsons said he had hoped that the issue would have been solved by July 30. While he was a bit nervous when that didn’t happen, he said that press reports greatly exaggerated the situation.
“You see the word ‘strike’—’They’re walking out!’—but there was nothing to walk out from,” he told EW. “That’s always hard, because part of you wants to explain to people what’s really going on. ‘Don’t worry, we’re not leaving, we want to do the show.'”
While Parsons is really happy to be nominated for playing Sheldon again, he’s also proud of being nominated for his role in HBO and Ryan Murphy’s The Normal Heart. He is excited to know that people saw a performance of his outside Big Bang.
“I would be lying if I said it didn’t feel really good to know that people had seen and thought it was also good work, because again, it is such a different ball of wax from the life of Sheldon,” he told EW.
Parsons already has three Emmys and a Golden Globe for Big Bang.
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