On the final season of Shrinking, we received a stunning How I Met Your Mom reunion as Cobie Smulders joined the solid to play Sofi, a girl promoting her automotive to Jason Segel’s Jimmy. Instantly, they’d a enjoyable a flirty vibe that I beloved (regardless that I had a laborious time forgetting the performed platonic buddies on the CBS sitcom), and I’d like to see extra. Now, it’s been confirmed that may occur, and the actor sweetly defined why HIMYM helped create magic between them on this marvelous Apple TV+ present.
After Liz actress Christa Miller mentioned she set to work with Smulders on Season 3 of Shrinking, which does verify her return, Jason Segel defined why Jimmy with Sofi work so properly. Beginning with a quick historical past lesson about How I Met Your Mom (through a TikTok posted by hopesloopentertainment), he mentioned:
Cobie and I labored collectively for ten years. However due to the best way that I used to be married on the present, and it was a variety of episodes about being single and searching for companions, Cobie and I by no means actually had any storylines collectively. And I at all times actually needed to work together with her.
Properly, work together with her, he did! In Season 2, Episode 10 of Shrinking (which you’ll be able to watch with an Apple TV+ subscription), Smulders was launched as Sofi. Like Jimmy, Sofi had misplaced her associate. Nevertheless, Jimmy is a widower whereas Sofi is divorced. They joked about these losses, and so they very clearly had outstanding chemistry.
Segel defined that chemistry is there as a result of the characters really feel like they’ve identified one another for years, when in actuality, they only met. I completely agree with that; it felt like Jimmy and Sofi had already identified one another, and so they instantly clicked. And we will thank How I Met Your Mom for that, because the Marshall actor defined:
And once I watch the Cobie scenes, I’m like ‘What’s it?’ And I believe that the magic trick of that dynamic is that these characters have simply met, however it’s a must to have the sense that they’re sort of meant for one another. We’ve 20 years of understanding one another. There’s 20 years of historical past from very early life of individuals being sick, and folks having infants, and folks being properly and unwell, and understanding one another. So, there’s like a historical past between us that the characters appear to have for no purpose.
Whereas Robin and Marshall had been by no means romantically concerned, they had been buddies, and Smulders and Segel labored collectively on How I Met Your Mom for 9 seasons throughout early life of their lives.
Now, they’re taking that real-life and on-screen friendship and turning it into one thing extra on Shrinking, as Jason Segel defined:
I discovered lots from that casting resolution. ‘Oh, how attention-grabbing, it appears to be like like they’ve identified one another ceaselessly, and it’s as a result of now we have.’
Now, we all know Smulders can be again for the upcoming season of the Apple TV+ present, and I can’t wait to see how this relationship develops. They actually appeared to have a great factor going, and Segel mentioned Season 3’s theme is “transferring ahead” whereas speaking about Sofi’s potential return. Plus, with their How I Met Your Mom historical past, we all know the chemistry is there in dividends.
So, let’s discover all this additional! I must see extra!