This is quite a busy time for Cobie Smulders. The actress is going into her ninth and final season of How I Met Your Mother, debuting on September 23rd, and then the very next night, September 24th, she’ll be guest starring in the premiere episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., reprising her role as Maria Hill from The Avengers – a character she’ll be playing yet again in April’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
I recently sat down with Smulders to talk to her about the final season of HIMYM, what it’s like knowing the end is coming and what could be in store for Robin Scherbatsky, including one last look at Robin Sparkles. We also talked about Maria Hill, her role in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the possibility of her appearing more in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
IGN TV: Is it a different energy this season, going in knowing it’s the final year and this will be the end of the story?
Cobie Smulders: You know what, it sort of feels like business as usual right now, except for the fact that we’re shooting on a completely different stage, which is weird. It’s like, “Where’s craft service? Where’s the bathroom? I can’t find these things.” So that’s been a bit of a superficial difference. We have so many sets. We’re at this wedding, so it’s basically all these sets for this weekend getaway place. So that’s been weird, but we’re just sort of like, “Let’s just do it.” There’s so much to do that we’re just doing it. Every once in awhile it hits me, “Oh, this is the last season.” I feel like around the holidays it’s going to start to really sink in.
IGN: This season obviously has a very different framework, the way you’re telling the story over the course of one weekend. The show has gone back and forth in time a lot. Is this different for you guys just knowing that it’s going to take place over this very truncated period of time?
Smulders: Yeah, it is. It’s very different, but it’s also great. It feels like a completely different vibe. It’s nice to switch it up and we’re not just sitting in a bar. I mean, there are scenes where we’re going to be sitting in the bar, but it kind of makes it feel slightly different. But all the players are there, so it just feels like, “Oh, things are changing, and that’s okay!”
IGN: We go into this wedding with a lot of drama that we as the audience are aware of, more so than Robin at this point, because we know she’s going to get these pre-wedding jitters. On top of the locket situation she’s already dealing with…
Smulders: You know the show well! I’m like, “Oh yeah, okay. Yep, yep. Got it.”
IGN: [Laughs] I’ve seen it, I’ve seen it. What do you think her frame of mind is going into this wedding as this season begins? Is she already completely rattled, or is it slowly creeping up on her?
Smulders: You know, sitcoms don’t have a lot of time. They don’t give you a lot of time for a lot of “This is happening, but this is also happening.” It’s like, “Make ‘em laugh!” I feel like the beginning, she’s like, “This wedding is happening.” I think that there’s this stress of the wedding happening, and it’s enough to create stress. But I don’t know, things are definitely weird between her and Ted. They haven’t seen each other, so we shot a few scenes where they finally saw each other. There’s definitely a lot of tension between them. But it’s also like, they’ve all been friends for so long that it’s par for the course. She dated Ted, then she dated Barney, she’s kind of back to Ted for a second, and then -- you know, there’s a lot going on. But I don’t know what’s going to happen at the actual wedding.
Continue to Page 2 as Smulders talks Robin Sparkles HIMYM swan song and discusses Maria Hill’s appearances in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Source : ign[dot]com
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