What Kaley Cuoco didn’t know was that she’d get another big break right after losing the role of Birdie Jay in “Onion: A Knives Out Story.” As she told Jessica Radloff, the day after crying about not joining Rian Johnson’s cast, she got a call about the film that would become her next project: the 2022 romantic comedy “Meet Foff,” which ultimately starred Cuoco alongside Pete Davidson.
“They said, ‘We have an interesting script,'” Cuoco recalled of “Meet Cute,” which she also ended up producing under her company, yes, Norman (named for her beloved dog). Still, she says she almost didn’t even bother auditioning, thinking she “was terrible” and “no one” wanted to involve her, presumably because she was so upset about losing such a big role recently. Eventually, she was talked into it, especially since Davidson was already set to appear in the Peacock original… and Cuoco loved calling it a “magical little script.”
“And I never would have gotten it if I [got ‘Knives Out’]. It just shows you that you’re where you’re supposed to be,” Cuoco concluded. “I mean, I was destroyed by it. And that’s when I thought I was on fire, like, I’m sure I can get this. And they were like, ‘No, we’re going with Kate [Hudson].'”
Cuoco said she had a little flinch about the whole thing before losing the “Glass Onion” part to Hudson. “[But the whole time before,] I was thinking it was hot: I’m going to be with Daniel Craig,” she admitted, referencing Craig’s leading man, Benoit Blanc. “That’s amazing. But I couldn’t be happier with how things turned out.”
“And maybe I’ll audition for the third one,” Cuoco said slyly. (She is, I should note, not in the listed cast of “Wake Up Dead Man,” the upcoming third “Knives Out” movie, but Johnson and Craig seem like they’ll be doing that for a while… so there’s still time!) In addition to “Meet Cute,” Cuoco has produced and starred in a lot of projects since playing Penny in “The Big Bang Theory,” including another romantic comedy (“Role Play”), the Peacock original “Based on a True Story,” HBO Max’s cheeky animated take on the DC supervillain, “Harley Quinn” (where Cuoco clearly has a ton of fun voicing Harley herself), and, of course, “The Flight Attendant.”
