For Kunal Nayyar, taking part in Raj Koothrappali on The Huge Bang Idea “ruined” one in every of his favourite types of self-expression.
The actor opened up about his character’s wardrobe on the Monday, August 11, episode of The Official Huge Bang Idea Podcast, revealing he was lower than thrilled about Raj’s sense of fashion on the CBS sitcom.
“I really like vogue, to be sincere. It’s one in every of my favourite issues,” Nayyar shared. “After which I used to be like, ‘Oh, my God, like, I’m gonna must put on these garments.’ It’s very apropos to the character, clearly. However for me, I used to be like — I imply, in the event you watch what I wore that complete present, it’s ridiculously hideous, but in addition ridiculously good for the character.”
Raj’s many patterned sweater vests and cargo pants finally modified Nayyar’s outlook on vogue. “It’s ruined for me,” he quipped. “I can’t put on garments that appear to be classic Gucci sweaters or one thing that appears like Raj’s sweaters that’s in vogue now. I can’t put on that stuff. If God forbid cargo pants make a comeback, what am I going to do? I can’t put on khaki. I can’t put on this different stuff. I can’t do it.”
Regardless of his distaste for Raj’s garments, Nayyar praised costume designer Mary T. Quigley for doing a “superb job” with the entire characters’ wardrobes. He additionally identified an Easter egg about when Raj’s model shifted on the present.
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“If you happen to return and also you notice, after we did the flashback episode and Raj is dressed like Miami Vice, he begins dressing like Leonard, is why he thinks that’s the way you costume,” he mentioned referring to the Season 3 episode titled “The Staircase Implementation,” which reveals how Leonard (Johnny Galecki) first met Raj, Howard (Simon Helberg), and Sheldon (Jim Parsons). “And so he will get his vogue inspiration from Leonard, which is simply unhappy.”
Raj’s layered seems on The Huge Bang Idea did include one perk. “It’s at all times freezing on the stage. Folks don’t notice that. However the studio was at all times freezing,” Nayyar shared on the podcast. “It was at all times chilly. It’s an enormous house to warmth up, and L.A. will get chilly within the evenings, and the studios are at all times chilly. So, I used to be superb. I imply, I by no means felt sizzling in any respect. I beloved it.”
Nayyar performed Raj on all 12 seasons of The Huge Bang Idea, which ran on CBS from 2007 to 2019. The present’s first spinoff, Younger Sheldon, ran for seven seasons on CBS from 2017 to 2024, whereas the follow-up present Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage premiered on CBS in October 2024.
The Huge Bang Idea universe will quickly broaden with the brand new spinoff, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, which is able to observe Kevin Sussman‘s Stuart as he’s “tasked with restoring actuality after he breaks a tool constructed by Sheldon and Leonard, by accident bringing a few multiverse Armageddon,” per the present’s official logline.
The Huge Bang Idea cocreator Chuck Lorre has teased that different characters from the unique sequence might pop up on the upcoming HBO Max sequence. “That may be a carefully guarded piece of knowledge that, you already know… I’ve taken a blood oath relating to,” he advised TVLine final month. After the interviewer expressed their hope in seeing acquainted faces again on the small display screen, Lorre added, “You’re going to like this present.”