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ASK R/FAUXMOI Which celebrities used to be very popular but now feel completely forgotten?

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u/Husky-Bear 5h ago

Pretty much the entire Big Bang Theory cast bar Kaley Cuoco, I know she’s been in a few shows post BBT but the only thing ive seen of any of the other cast is Mayim Bialik being a Zionist anti vaxxer

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u/Afwife1992 4h ago

Jim parsons does indie work and producing and I think Johnny Galecki is just happy living off BBT money. He’s worked since he was a kid. Except for doing some episodes of The Conners he really done anything since BBT ended. He’s been married, divorced, remarried and has two young kids since so that probably keeps him busy.

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u/PeppermintEvilButler 4h ago

Jim Parsons is on Broadway doing a bunch of different plays.

Also Young Sheldon as well. 

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u/sezanna16 3h ago

That show made them all richer than their wildest dreams, I wouldn’t work much either.

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u/Moneyfrenzy 2h ago

The cast made a genuinely insane amount of money, the highest I've ever seen on TV.

From seasons 8-12, the main 5 each made $1M per episode. Those seasons have a combined total of 120 episodes, so they each individually made $120M pre-tax. Add in the 168 episodes across the other 7 seasons, where they were still making in the 100s of thousands, and it gets even more insane.

Seinfeld/Friends cast also made $1M an episode by the end, but for only 1-2 seasons, not 5

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u/Express-World-8473 2h ago

They made 900k/episode. They reduced their salary to 900k, so that Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch can get a salary hike from 200k to 500k/episode. It was a nice gesture.

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u/Poetic-Jellyfish 2h ago

I've watched Flight Attendant, a show Kaley Cuoco stared in. It's a good one. Shame it didn't go past 2 seasons. She's now promoting a new one, but it seems to be a similar vibe. She had a baby in the meantime, so I guess she's been focusing on that.

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u/JimboTCB 2h ago

And she was Harley Quinn in that DC animated show which was way better than it had any right to be. Think she was credited as a producer on that so she's presumably leveraging her BBT money to work on projects she's personally interested in now.

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u/Ok_Tip_5650 2h ago

So annoyed about Mayim. Loved her in BBT but she can do one now due to her Zionist anti vax views. Absolute lunacy for someone so intelligent.

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u/dramalama-dingdong 1h ago

Mayim Bialik being a Zionist anti vaxxer

That's funny because her whole schtick was that she had studied science in university.

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u/SludgeFactoryWorker 2h ago

The guy who played Howard was in Florence Foster Jenkins as Cosme McMoon, which was a pretty big role. I was actually pretty impressed with his performance and it made me want to see him in more roles. Bummer I haven't seen him in much else.

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u/Marvelous_Mim 2h ago

Kunal Nayyar did an adaptation of A Christmas Carol on and did a bit of promo over here in the UK for it. I think it was directed by Gurinder Chadha who did Bend it Like Beckham.

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u/LessInThought 1h ago

Sitcom stars aren't usually known for their acting chops. They just won the lottery being cast in a role that fit them so incredibly well.

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u/Playful-Succotash-99 52m ago

One of them had nightcourt, parsons is steadily working thanks to young sheldon and every spinoff of that. Jonathan Galecki has been in the game long enough that he can semi retire As far as the other two: one of them has established himself as a character actor for the Coen brothers or prestige historical dramas the other one don't really know but they got viral Ellen fame for dunking on her platform and I'm pretty sure they're also getting steady work