‘Big Bang’ Bazinga! Could Sheldon Be Gay?
As his ‘Star Trek’ hero Mr. Spock might say, this is ‘fascinating.’ When Chuck Lorre was asked to define Sheldon Cooper’s sexual orientation on ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ his answer wasn’t gay. It wasn’t straight. Not even asexual or nonsexual or unsexual. Lorre settled on the term ‘other,’ for Sheldon.
Lorre told Michael Ausiello in Entertainment Weekly that Sheldon’s focus is not on the physical; it’s on physics. And when Ausiello asked ‘Big Bang Theory’ star Jim Parsons what he thought, Parsons said that the object of Sheldon’s affection would be the Nobel Prize, not another human being. Hearing the word that Dr. Sheldon Cooper has been awarded the Nobel Prize in theoretical physics would be Sheldon’s turn on. “That’s the warm embrace that he longs for,” said Jim.
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