Omg! Jim Parsons just confirmed Young Sheldon was actually inspired by his real life nephew

Young Sheldon might have ended, but the love for it still remains. Since Young Sheldon debuted in 2017, everyone couldn’t get enough of the prequel to the hugely popular sitcom, which gave way more context and lore to Big Bang’s most popular and unique character – Sheldon Cooper. Across even seasons, we got to see Iain Armitage become just as iconic as Jim Parsons in the role of Sheldon Cooper – and now Jim Parsons has confirmed that the show has a lot of heart because Young Sheldon was actually inspired by real life.

Here’s the heartwarming story of his Jim Parsons’ real life nephew inspired Young Sheldon, and what the actor’s said about it.

Jim Parsons was thinking of ideas when he visited home

Both Jim Parsons and Sheldon Cooper have one major thing in common – they’re both from Texas. Whilst The Big Bang Theory was airing, Jim was trying to think of ideas for a spin off and sourced that inspiration on a trip back to visit family in his native Texas. He got the idea from his nephew Michael, who was 10 years old when Parsons visited.

“We had been asked by executives, ‘Would you look into your own life? Because those pitch well,’ ” Parsons told Entertainment Tonight in 2017. “So we were looking at my family and one of my nephews, my sister’s kids, her oldest, he’s very smart. Not like in a Sheldon way, but they frequently say, ‘Where did he come from?’ So we were like, this sounds like a good idea. And the more we talked — they’re in Texas — and it was, like, this relates.”

via CBS

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Jim Parsons then explained how he pitched the idea to Big Bang’s show runners Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro.

“[I] was like, ‘Listen we have this idea … If this interests you and you want to look into this together, let’s chat. If not, we can go on our merry way and change it enough that it doesn’t relate as much.’ But Chuck loved it and Steve Molaro loved it. And what they’ve done with it, in making it a single cam, and the way that they’ve opened this up, it’s beautiful — even more than I could have dreamed of.”

Chuck Lorre also explained how Jim Parsons sent him a video of his real life nephew and the Young Sheldon inspiration was born, with Lorre describing Michael as “a prodigy — brilliant, extraordinary, off the hook, crazy smart kid.” Sounds familia, methinks!

Jim asked, ‘Is there anything we can do with this?’ ” Lorre told The Hollywood Reporter in 2022. “I said, ‘Well, if we wanted to do a show about a young man who is brilliant — a comedy — we have that built into our show. That’s the backstory of Sheldon Cooper.’

“Over the years of Big Bang, we learned about his mother, we learned about his upbringing in Texas, his sister and brother. We had the backstory in place. It was just a matter of whether to execute it as its own show. It was pretty simple for me.”

Literally so wholesome. Brb, need to binge the entire series all over again.

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