“You know who I don’t want to work with ever again.” Kaley Cuoco from The Big Bang Theory talks about the most difficult scene of her career

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While Kaley Cuoco is best known for playing Penny on The Big Bang Theory, a role she held for twelve years, she surprisingly found the most challenging scene of her acting career came while working on a different TV show.

Kaley Cuoco is known for her role in The Flight Attendant, where she played a flight attendant struggling with personal issues. It’s considered one of her best performances, but also incredibly challenging. In fact, she says it contained the most difficult scene of her entire career, and ultimately led her to decide she didn’t want to work with her on-screen partner – herself – again.

Playing all the different sides of her character was really demanding for Kaley Cuoco. She pulled it off, but by the end, she was exhausted and isn’t eager to repeat the experience.

This was a challenging process. I usually experiment a lot with different approaches, but motion capture doesn’t allow for that. I’d play the character Cassie each day, and we’d have to choose one perfect take to lock in. Then I’d switch characters and act against that established performance. It went on and on like that – if I made a mistake, we had to begin the entire scene again. It was a completely different way of working than I was used to.

And you know who I don’t want to work with ever again, is myself multiple times!

The Flight Attendant, Steve Yockey, HBO Max, 2020

For much of the scene, Kaley Cuoco essentially acted alone, playing opposite herself. While her stunt double, Monette Moio, appeared in a few shots, Cuoco was mostly on screen by herself, quickly changing outfits and portraying the various sides of her character, Cassie Bowden.

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2025-11-13 13:32