Kelly Cuoco Weighs In On Her Latest TV Project

The Flight Attendant is back for a second season on HBO Max.

Kaley Cuoco stars as Cassie Bowden, a flight attendant who works as a civilian asset for the CIA, and who witnesses a murder that may have been committed by someone impersonating her.

In a recent interview with Collider, Cuoco acknowledged that expectations are high for Season 2.

“Oh, I was terrified (to return for another season),” Couco said. “It definitely took a lot of conversations for me to fully get on board. I was really nervous about it because of that exact thing. It was good, and we did set the bar really high. But it’s wild, what we came back with is bigger and better, I feel like, by tenfold. The scope is huge. We’ve got great new characters. I play five Cassies. The Mind Palace is on a whole other level. We swung really, really hard this season.”

Cuoco was non-committal when asked how long the show might go on.

“This was really supposed to be one season, and then we did this awesome second season,” she said. “I can assure you, you are not the first person to ask me this. It’s very flattering that people even think that there could be talks of a third season. I wanna see how it’s received. I wanna see, after we premiere, how it does and what people are saying. I need a little bit of a breather.”

Cuoco added that she’s excited about the way Season 2 ends.

“I loved the ending,” she said. “The same way we did with Season 1, it could literally be tied in a bow, or it could continue on. We did it in a way that really could go any which way you wanted. But I think it cleared up a lot of storylines. It left other things a little bit open, but a lot of the questions are answered. I think for Cassie, she’s realizing that this life that she’s living is not an easy thing. Sobriety is a lifelong struggle and it’s going to take her day by day. We start out the season of her acting like everything’s great. She’s going, “I’m just gonna switch. My life is perfect. I’m sober. I’m living in L.A. and I’ve got everything going for me.” And we find out very quickly that she doesn’t. This season, of facing herself in the Mind Palace and all these different parts of herself that she hates so much, is really about self-acceptance and self-forgiveness. There’s not anyone in the Mind Palace that she likes. That’s what’s really interesting. It’s actually just dawning on me, in this moment. They’re all parts of her she hates. I feel like we talk about, for ourselves, all the things that we hate and we are so unkind to each other, we forget to tell ourselves the good things and be nice to ourselves. Life in this world, right now, is not easy and I think we all deserve a little bit of a break once in a while, and especially Cassie.”