Helping flawed characters take flight

Complicated female roles like the one Kaley Cuoco plays in The Flight Attendant are what she wants to bring to the screen as a producer

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In The Flight Attendant, Kaley Cuoco plays an air stewardess who wakes up in bed with a dead man after a wild, drunken night in Bangkok.

This is the first television role for Cuoco since her turn on the mega-hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2007 to 2019), which made her one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on November 24, 2020, with the headline Helping flawed characters take flight. Subscribe