This story contains details from the series finale episode ofYoung Sheldonon CBS.
Good luck at Caltech, Sheldon!
We know youll do just fine and go on to make great friends in Pasadena.
From left: Ed Bagley Jr, Wallace Shawn, Annie Potts, Zoe Perry and Montana Jordan (CBS)
STEVE HOLLANDIt was the family dinner scene where Mary [Zoe Perry] wants them to get baptized.
Georges chair is there with a place setting, but hes obviously passed away at that point.
So we wanted to end in a scene that had as many of the characters in it as possible.
And those dinner scenes have been such a staple of the show.
DEADLINE:What was that last day like?
HOLLAND:It was really emotional.
I mean, honestly, the whole last month was.
So there was a lot of real life emotions being mixed in with character emotions.
Tears were readily available to everybody, but it literally had been weeks of saying goodbye.
DEADLINE:Why was it important for Mary to have her kids baptized?
And we always thought that Georges death was sort of a flashpoint moment for a lot of these characters.
I think its just really important for her to feel like hes going to be okay.
DEADLINE:It was such a great idea to put Sheldon in a scuba suit for that.
But we also felt like Sheldons not going to get in that tank of water unprotected.
So it was a discussion about what he would wear.
It looked a little too cool.
We just kept adding and taking away until we found what seemed like the best look for him.
DEADLINE:Did you know for several seasons that you wantedJim ParsonsandMayim Bialikin the finale?
HOLLAND:I think in the back of our minds, it was always the thing we wanted.
Certainly Jim, because hed been narrating the whole thing.
But then it was like a balancing act for us.
Im really happy with the balance we found.
DEADLINE:So why would the world need a Sheldon Cooper memoir?
HOLLAND:Hes a Nobel Prize winning physicist.
DEADLINE:So was the first time that we learned Sheldon and Amy named their kid Leonard?
HOLLAND:Wed said that before, I think in the episode where Sheldon graduates from high school.
I think adult Sheldon says in voiceover that they have a son named after Leonard.
DEADLINE:What was it like bringing Mayim and Jim back together?
HOLLAND:Those are actors who I love and spent a decade of my life with.
I see them from time to time, and obviously Jim narrated the show, so we saw him.
But thats usually on Zoom.
He lives in New York, so were not in the same actual room that often.
DEADLINE:Was that final scene shot at Caltech?
But I think it was the first time weve actually shot outside on the campus.
But I guess thats too much to dream about?
HOLLAND:I think so.
You also get into this weird thing where somehow, he would have to morph into Jim Parsons.
DEADLINE:Lets talk about the spinoff,George & Mandys First Marriage!
Its so great that its going to be a multi-camera comedy.
Did you want to do that all along?
HOLLAND:Multicam is our background.
For Chuck and Steven Molaro and I, thats how we came up in this business.
Itll give it its own identity.
Itll give it its own flavor.
And putting this cast up in front of an audience is going to be really exciting.
DEADLINE:What soundstage will you be on?
HOLLAND:Were going to be on the Big Bang stage, stage 25.
I actually havent been back on that stage since we wrapped Big Bang.
I hope audiences are ready for a return to that.
I think theres a real space for that in the world.
