The Big Bang Theory - Interview with Mayim Balik

Amy and Sheldon [played by Jim Parsons] shared a kiss in season four. Think they’ll get to second base this year?
Oh no, I think that’s pushing it way too fast. I like to joke that I also got to kiss Kaley Cuoco in that same episode, so I think it’s more likely I’ll get to second base with her.

When we first meet Amy, she’s trying to fit in with the crew. Was some of that coming from a real place, since you were joining a tight-knit cast?
I hadn’t thought of it like that, but yeah. I have different techniques to try and fit in than my character. I like to think I’m more suave, but everybody on the cast is pretty hip and I find myself not, so I think there’s definitely a lot of awkwardness. Also, I’m one of the older people. Kaley and Simon [Helberg] and Kunal [Nayyar], they’re like little whippersnappers with all their technology and iPads; and Jim and Johnny [Galecki] and I are the elderly cast members.

What made you decide to get back into acting?
I had my first son in graduate school in 2005, and my husband and I fell in love with being parents in a specific way — the umbrella term is “attachment parenting.” For us, what that meant was we wanted me to be the primary body next to our children for their formative years. I got pregnant with our second son the week that I filed my thesis, and I knew that a research professorship or doing a postdoc wasn’t gonna work. So I tried my hand at acting once our little guy was out of the infancy stage. We would all pile into the car and I would nurse him in the car and run into an audition and run back and nurse him again, and we’d all go home. I just sort of started auditioning for things, and The Big Bang Theory audition came in. I had never seen the show — I had to Google “Jim Parsons” — and then I got the job.

Source: Full interview @ Vulture