“Young Sheldon” actor Iain Armitage might’ve become a star thanks to the hit CBS sitcom, but when it came time to call it quits on the seven-season series in 2024, he admits he was the cast member “the most happy about the show ending.”
\n\nIn an interview featured in Jessica Radloff’s oral history, “Young Sheldon: The (Juicier-Than-Meemaw’s-Brisket) Inside Story of the Hit Comedy” (via US Weekly), Armitage, who played the titular character, said he wasn’t “going home and crying all day” like some of his co-workers at the news of the series ending. He also added that it was “heavy and annoying and weird” to be in a state of mourning around “Young Sheldon,” and he refused to “stay in that heaviness forever.”
\n\n“Plus, I wanted to be in Virginia. I wanted to be traveling, and I’m happy to do whatever movie comes up. And my mom has always imbued me with a very healthy sense of ephemerality, and the fact that nothing good can last and everything changes, and that’s a good thing,” he said. “I would hate to be on a show playing 23-year-old Sheldon. That would suck. I wouldn’t want to do that.”
\n\nArmitage was just eight…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/