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Wil Wheaton Talks Playing Wil Wheaton In Wedding Season Finale Of ‘The Big Bang Theory’

posted 6 years ago by Satan2016 (23240)
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The actor also opened up about what it has been like playing a version of himself on The Big Bang Theory over the years.

It took me a long time to get used to playing a version of myself. I had a great conversation with Mark Hamill about this, because Mark is playing a version of himself as well. He was saying, it’s hard to wrap your head around playing a version of yourself because you almost feel like, I am giving my actual real-life endorsement to the things that the character version of is saying and doing, and that might not necessarily be the case. I got to tell him, you just sort of commit to the fun of the fiction of it all, that this isn’t actually who we are in real life. What I didn’t tell him is that it took me almost 8 years of playing Wil Wheaton on “The Big Bang Theory” to get to that point, where I’m playing a character who just so happens to have the same name as me and much of my biography.

[–] Keelai (31751) 6 years ago

That was a funny episode. I enjoyed seeing all the cameos. Thankfully, Big Bang treated Hamill with respect unlike Disney.

[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 6 years ago

That's really interesting. Since I'm not an actor, I never really gave it too much thought, but it obviously would be a bit hard to play a fictional version of yourself. however long it took him, Wheaton made it look pretty easy!

[–] PaladinNJ (20307) 5 years ago

I think of it more like he's playing a caricature of himself. Emphasizing the qualities people expect to see and keeping his private life out of it.