Those responsible for Young Sheldon wanted Reba McEntire to return for the final episodes, to reprise the role of June, but it doesn’t seem like this cameo is going to happen. The one that is confirmed is one of many more subtle. Octavia Spencer, the Oscar-winning actress for Maids and Ladies, will reappear in this comedy universe after having participated in the second season of The Big Bang Theory.
His first intervention was broadcast in October 2008 when The Big Bang Theory was not yet the audience phenomenon it became. She was the woman at the counter to whom Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) was outraged by the driver’s license exam. The episode garnered 9.3 million viewers, nothing compared to the 20 million it garnered, becoming for many the successor to Friends.
In the episode of Young Sheldon titled Community Service and the Key to a Happy Marriage, for the record, it doesn’t seem like he’s going to play the same character. She will be the agent who must ensure that Connie (Annie Potts) completes the 140 hours of community service that young Sheldon’s grandmother (Iain Armitage) tries to get rid of by pretending that, for her age, she is much worse than she should be. which really is.
This is a curious tribute for an actress closely linked to Chuck Lorre, the co-creator of The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon, both for her participation in these two comedies and for the episode she did in Dharma and Greg in 2001, when she was still working. as Octavia L. Spencer, and the recurring role of Regina she played on Mom, with nine episodes between 2013 and 2015.
Spencer, when she was in The Big Bang Theory, was not yet such a respected actress in Hollywood. It was not until 2012 that he won the Oscar for period comedy and it was not a sporadic milestone in his career: in 2017 he again opted for the statuette as a supporting actor for Hidden Figures and a year later for The Shape of Water.
Between 2019 and 2023, she also got used to the role of protagonist on television after leading Truth be told, a thriller that she produced with Reese Witherspoon.
