Chuck Lorre, the creator of “The Big Bang Theory” and its prequel series “Young Sheldon,” says that during the COVID era, some of the cast of “Young Sheldon” tried to excuse themselves from getting the vaccine due to personal and religious reasons.
Production on the show’s third season halted in March 2020 amid the pandemic, but when it resumed production for Season 4, producers wanted the cast and crew to be vaccinated.
“There were a lot of very heated and personal issues regarding that vaccine, which I always found astonishing, putting aside the miracle of a vaccine after nine months,” writes Mr. Lorre in his new memoir “Sitcom.”
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Warner Bros.’ legal department at the time said that if someone could present a religious excuse, they could opt out of the requirement.
“But then all these games started to get played … people started coming in with letters from their ministers and their pastors saying they were religiously against the vaccine,” recalls Tim Marx, a producer on the show, in Mr. Lorre’s memoir.
Mr. Marx did not disclose which specific actors refused the vaccine.
“There were a number of people who really didn’t want to get them, who ended up getting the vaccine to continue working,” Mr. Marx said. “They weren’t happy about it, but I felt very strongly that I needed to protect the group as a whole. And eventually, everybody was vaccinated.”
“Young Sheldon” ran for seven seasons on CBS from 2017 to 2024.
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