Jim Parsons talks with CBS SUNDAY MORNING About Producing, Acting & More

Jim Parsons is best known for his confident work in front of the camera on the CBS sitcom THE BIG BANG THEORY and currently on the Broadway stage, but he says it has taken him time to settle in behind the camera as a producer on his new film "A Kid Like Jake." Parsons talks with Richard Schlesinger about producing, acting and more, in an interview for CBS SUNDAY MORNING to be broadcast Sunday, June 10 (9:00 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network.

The film, in which Parsons and Claire Danes star as parents searching for the right school for their 4-year-old son who likes to dress as a princess, marks Parsons' first time behind the camera as a producer.

Asked where he acquired the producer bug, Parsons says he's not sure if he really has it. The only thing he knows, he says, is what he doesn't know.

"I don't know all the things that one must consider when putting together a project," Parsons tells Schlesinger. "I'm learning them. Things that are hard for me to get my head around, like the value an actor brings to a project, and the money such and such can bring."

Schlesinger visited the set of the movie last summer in Brooklyn and talked with Danes, Parsons, director Silas Howard, and Parsons' producing partner and husband, Todd Spiewack. Parsons and Spiewack are also executive producers on CBS' hit sitcom YOUNG SHELDON, which goes into its second season this fall.

Schlesinger also caught up with Parsons recently to see how he was feeling about the completed work.

Parsons, who is a power player in Hollywood with the ability to produce any film he wants, says the time is right for "A Kid Like Jake" because of the current discussion in the news about gender roles.

"I think it might be more important than ever, even if mostly what you want to is act, to get your face and hands in there as early as you can to make sure that the stories you're interested in telling have a chance to be told," Parsons tells Schlesinger. "If I want to hear a certain story, there's probably many other people out there, maybe not a lot - but maybe just a few - but there's some other people who want to hear that, too."

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