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Cuoco cut off her hair for a movie role ahead of The Big Bang Theory season 8.

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When season 8 of The Big Bang Theory premiered in , fans were thrown for a loop when Kaley Cuoco 's character, Penny, suddenly had a pixie cut. Since the show's premiere in , Cuoco had almost exclusively had long blonde hair, but after cutting it short for a movie role ahead of season 8, her character had to come along on the hair journey with her.

At the time, Cuoco, 36, thought the haircut would save time in the hair and makeup chair at work on The Big Bang Theory and that it really wouldn't be that big of a deal. At that point we were heading into our eighth season and something needed to shake up. I was bored and sick of the hair, and what's funny is I thought by cutting my hair, I would spend less time in the hair and makeup chair, even though I loved the hair and makeup team.

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Cuoco went on to say that her decision to cut her hair "bit" her "in the a—" because it took so much longer to style her short hair than it did to style her long locks. What was I thinking?! I thought I was cutting off all this time, because I hated going in and getting ready," she said. So then I cut it and it ended up being more work because it wasn't easy to style.

What made Cuoco's haircut so much more of a big deal was that no one on set knew it was coming — she just showed up for the season 7 wrap party with it. Though she'd gone short and shorter , the pixie cut was a first, and the show's co-creator and executive producer Chuck Lorre wasn't thrilled with the surprise. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE 's free weekly newsletter to get the biggest news of the week delivered to your inbox every Friday.

I wish we had been in the loop. Though Lorre admitted that the haircut was a "small one" in terms of "bumps in the road," he said he was cognizant of how much a drastic hair change can affect a show. At the start of season 8 of the show, Cuoco's character Penny was supposed to be starting a new job as a pharmaceutical rep, so she said in the book that the haircut made sense to her for this career change.