The newest season of Shrinking handled viewers to a shocking How I Met Your Mom reunion. For a quick second, Jason Segel, who leads the Apple TV+ sequence as Jimmy Laird, shared the display screen with Cobie Smulders. Segel and Smulders each starred in How I Met Your Mom throughout its complete nine-season run from 2005 to 2014. Segel mirrored on their reunion throughout a current dialog with The Hollywood Reporter, telling the publication that he pitched the concept of Smulders for the position of Sofi:
“It was dreamy. On ‘How I Met Your Mom,’ we had been hardly ever mixed, and so it felt actually cool. And I feel the opposite factor — I used to be truly simply speaking about this as we speak — I feel after I watched that scene, I really feel like a weight to it that goes past two folks assembly for the primary time, which I feel is what feels fascinating about it, what feels electrical about it. There was one thing actually significant.
After we made that present, Cobie and I had been the youngest, and so we knew one another from principally our early 20s to our early 30s. These are actually adolescence once you’re turning into who you’re and getting issues fallacious and getting them proper and determining life, and to be standing throughout from one another 10 years later, taking a look at one another like, “Hey, we’re each nonetheless right here, and have a look at us all grown up. I feel you may really feel that weight to the scenes like this look of recognition between the 2 characters that I feel feels actually good for what the storyline is meant to be.”
In How I Met Your Mom, Segel starred the quirky Marshall Eriksen, whereas Smulders portrayed the unbiased and bold Robin Scherbatsky. There was by no means any romantic relationship between the 2 characters, however Shrinking may spotlight the 2 in a distinct dynamic if Smulders reprises her position in Season 3.
Will Cobie Smulders Return for ‘Shrinking’ Season 3?
Though Smulder’s look as Sofi, who purchases a automobile from Jimmy, may be very transient, there’s purpose to imagine she’ll return for the following season. For one, there was an plain spark between the 2 characters, and seeing Jimmy completely happy, Segel says, permits audiences “to see slightly little bit of what pre-accident Jimmy may need been like”.
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In accordance with Shrinking co-creator Invoice Lawrence, a self-proclaimed How I Met Your Mom fan, he’s desperate to have Smulders reprise her position as Sofi for the upcoming season. Talking to TVLine, he shared:
“I might kill to have Cobie again on the present. We all the time do Easter eggs for what the following season’s about within the season earlier than. And so, Cobie’s character is type of a personification, a visible illustration of what shifting ahead seems to be like for Jason’s character. If I can’t get fortunate sufficient to have her again, we’re gonna have to return to the drafting board.”
Praising the chemistry between Smulders and Segel, Lawrence stated “it felt genuine and was so romantic.”
“I assumed they had been each so good in it that I’m gonna do all the things I can to coerce her into coming again to the present,” he stated.
Shrinking Season 3 is already confirmed, with filming set to start in January. Together with seeing Jimmy transfer ahead, the upcoming installment will additional discover Paul’s ongoing battle with Parkinson’s illness. The character, portrayed by Harrison Ford, has seen the sickness worsen all through the present’s run. Shrinking, starring Segel, Ford, Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Christa Miller, and Ted McGinley, is accessible to stream on Apple TV+.
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January 26, 2023
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Jason Segel
, Luke Tennie
, Michael Urie
, Lukita Maxwell
, Harrison Ford
, Jessica Williams
, Christa Miller
, Ted McGinley
, Heidi Gardner
, Devin Kawaoka
, Lilan Bowden
, Kimberly Condict
, Lily Rabe
, Tilky Jones
, Rachel Stubington
, Wendie Malick
, Sawyer Jones
, Mike C. Nelson
, Matt Knudsen
, Kenajuan Bentley
, Adam Foster Ballard - Seasons
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