Left to right, John Ross Bowie, Lauren Lapkus, Kevin Sussman and Brian Posehn star in "Stuart Fails to Save the Universe," premiering Thursday. Photo courtesy of HBO
NEW YORK, July 23 (UPI) -- Kevin Sussman says actually working in a comic book store prepared him to star in The Big Bang Theory, but not its sci-fi spin-off, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, which premieres Thursday on HBO Max.
"In The Big Bang Theory, it was very helpful because in that, unlike this, in a lot of it, I was in the background. And, so, that's the hardest thing to do when you have little to do in a scene, but you're there on stage, so I always just did what I did at the comic-book store: took inventory," Sussman, 55, told reporters in a recent virtual press conference.
"I had the clipboard. I was really looking at: 'OK, what edition number is this?' And, so, that was helpful, but not really as much for the spin-off," he explained. "Nothing could help prepare for this role."
Sussman also recalled how being cast as a comic-book store owner in writer-producer Chuck Lorre's The Big Bang Theory was something of a happy accident almost two decades ago.
