Jim Parsons Shares His Personal Connection and Trailer To ‘Spolier Alert’

Out actor Jim Parsons, who played Sheldon on CBS’ long running The Big Bang Theory, shared the first trailer to Spoiler Alert which he is producing and which is an adaptation of the book Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, in which entertainment journalist (and TVLine co-founder) Michael Ausiello recounts his husband Kit Cowan’s terminal cancer diagnosis and their final months together.

Parsons told Queerty: “I can’t imagine anybody else writing with such precision and clarity what it is to stand next to somebody as they go on this end-of-life journey like this.” He was so moved, in fact, that he optioned the film rights shortly after finishing the book. For Parsons, the urge to tell Ausiello’s life-affirming story on the big screen was “irresistible.”

Fast forward to five years later, and the actor is thrilled to share the first trailer for Spoiler Alert, a heartwarming adaptation of the memoir—which stars Ben Aldridge, Sally Field, Bill Irwin, Jeffrey Self,  and Parsons himself as his friend Michael Ausiello.

“[Their] story echoed so many facets of my own life—not the tragic part of the journey, by the grace of God—but the long-term relationship,” Parsons shares. He and his husband are roughly the same age, they also met in New York City, and their careers, similarly, found them contending with long-distance coupledom. “It was really, really easy for me to emotionally put myself in Michael’s shoes, even just reading the book… The thought of having to go through something like that with someone that has been a part of your life that long—that’s what made me so attached to the to the story, the journey he goes on.”

Watch the trailer below.

Spoiler Alert premieres in select theaters on December 2, and then opens nationwide on December 16.