Alyson Hannigan has given a great new interview in which she talks about why she was interested in playing Lily on How I Met Your Mother, and how how they shot an emotional scene last season.
Alyson tells Assignment X: why she was attracted to playing Lily:
She had a voice and she had a personality, and that’s what I look for. I would not respond a part that is just a superficial sort of being there and not having anything to do. That bores me, and why use me if they’re going to do that? Get a model [laughs].
She also gives some great insight into shooting the emotional scene last year when Marshall learned that his father had died:
We knew it was going to happen, but it was very secretive, and then Jason didn’t read my line and I told him what the last word was, and he wanted to hear it for the first time when I said it. And we only did one take. I was like, “Jason, are you sure? I’m going to take some pauses, and the last word is ‘it.’” And I don’t say “it” any other time. But it was so wonderful. And we only did it once. I was, “Are you sure? We should probably do it again.” But they were like [happy with it].
On the future of her character as a parent she says:
I definitely [hoped] that they have a baby. Absolutely. Marshall and dirty diapers is going to be fun.
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Read the rest of the insightful interview here at Assignment X.
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