If Penny took her time before succumbing to the charms of Leonard in

The Big Bang Theory

, that was not the case for her interpreter, Kaley Cuoco.

Indeed, the actress had a real crush on Johnny Galecki from the start of the filming of the series which ran from 2007 to 2019, the two stars having maintained a relationship between 2008 and 2010.



"I had a big crush on Johnny from the start," recalls Kaley Cuoco in

The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series

, a behind-the-scenes book from which an excerpt was published. by

Vanity Fair

.

“He had so much confidence.

We were both dating at the time, but I only had eyes for Johnny.

And then when I found out it was reciprocal, I was like "oh oh, this is going to be problematic".

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For his part, Johnny Galecki had absolutely not seen that his on-screen partner was eyeing him!

When fact and fiction collide

"I had absolutely no idea Kaley had a crush on me before we started dating," Johnny Galecki said in the same interview.

But for Kaley Cuoco, it was clear that the chemistry was already working and, like in the series, they were turning around.

“It took the whole first season before we got together for real,” she continued, before confiding that the first kiss of their characters, which occurs at the end of the first season, was also their first kiss in life!


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