Kaley Cuoco: ‘The Big Bang Theory was an explosion of money and fame… of course there was drama’

‘Though I’ve had success with one thing, it doesn’t mean the next one will be like that. I understand the business. I go into things hoping they’ll resonate, but I’m also very realistic – someone’s gonna like it, and someone’s not, and that’s all that art is’ - (The Riker Brothers)

A few years ago, but long after she became one of the highest-paid women on American television, the Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco was asked to be on the cover of a magazine. And when she was given the finished issue, there it was in big, bold writing: “newcomer Kaley Cuoco”.

“Isn’t that crazy?” Cuoco gasps, in that lightning-fast but immaculately enunciated voice of a seasoned sitcom star. “So I said, ‘huh – I guess I’ll just sit, smile and wave and try to get away with this’.”