LOS ANGELES Kaley Cuoco was looking for her next project three years before The Big Bang Theory ended. The Flight Attendant is a dark thriller with comedic overtones, letting Cuoco employ the love of laughter she honed for 12 seasons on the CBS comedy. Cuoco said she won a bidding war for the rights to the novel of the same name by Chris Bohjalian. She stars as Cassie Bowden, a flight attendant who wakes up in the wrong hotel in the wrong bed with a dead man, and has no idea what happened. I don't mess around, I hit my mark, I may be late in the car, never late on set," Perez said.