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Young Sheldon fans left baffled at secret reunion they never knew about on the show
Three veteran Hollywood stars who were affiliated with the CBS hit series Young Sheldon were also linked with the Toy Story franchise, and Daily Mail is taking a closer look at the casting connection.
Annie Potts, Wallace Shawn and Richard Kind each had recurring roles on the Chuck Lorre spinoff of The Big Bang Theory, which ran for seven seasons from 2017-2024.
Potts, 72, played the role of Connie 'Meemaw' Tucker on 139 episodes of the CBS comedy.
She also portrayed the role of Bo Peep in the Pixar franchise's 1995 debut film Toy Story, followed by 1999's Toy Story 2 and 2019's Toy Story 4.
Wallace Shawn, 81, portrayed Dr. John Sturgis on Young Sheldon over 53 episodes from 2018 until the series finale last year.
Shawn provided the vocals for the Rex character in all of the films and a number of adjacent projects as well.
Kind, 68, played Ira Rosenbloom on Young Sheldon over three episodes from 2018-2019. He played the Bookworm in Toy Story 3.
The veteran character actor has also appeared in TV shows such as Only Murders in the Building and The Goldbergs; in films such as Wolfs and tick, tick... BOOM!; and in voice roles including Inside Out, A Bug's Life, Cars and Cars 2.
Potts chat with Variety in June of 2019 about her comeback to the animated series after she didn't appear in Toy Story 3 in 2010.
'I was invited back in November 2014, and I honestly didn't realize how big my role would be until I saw a screening about six weeks ago,' she said of reprising her role as Bo Peep.
She continued: 'We had a script, but it kept evolving, and I never saw a whole script. None of us did. So I was clueless.
'And then, of course, when I saw it, I was gobsmacked.'
Potts told the outlet that she believed the 2019 sequel Toy Story 4, in which Shawn also appeared, might 'the most emotionally satisfying of all of them in terms of both humor and heart.
She added: 'You laugh, you cry - you cry, you laugh. You just keep cycling through that rinse and repeat throughout an hour and 40 minutes, and it's a good ride.'
Kind and Shawn pictured exchanging lines during an episode of the show in 2018
Kind, 68, played Ira Rosenbloom on Young Sheldon and the Bookworm in Toy Story 3.
Potts spoke on the evolution of the Bo Peep character and preparation being put into it, as Pixar earmarked a dozen team members to assist in further developing the character and its appearance coming into the fourth film in the franchise.
'Honestly I was so amazed that they even had a team of 12 people whose job it was to define her every gesture and the way her eyes turned and in what direction and how her hand would be extended,' Potts said.
She added: 'I mean, that's usually the work that's up to me as an actress, you know?
'But I met them and I thought, "You guys are super on it! Awesome, I can just kind of sit back and let you guys make me!" And the proof is in the pudding.'
