Jim Parsons felt intimidated meeting Stephen Hawking on The Big Bang Theory set

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“It was just, it was an amazing experience. It was an intimidating one," he says. "I’d be lying if I said I was comfortable. … To get to finally meet him was, it was just overwhelming...And it’s one of the things that’s kind of bittersweet in a way because once he’s passed now and now we’re talking about him, it really hammers home how fortunate I was to get to be with him. "