The actress who plays the titular role on How I Met Your Mother season 9 is speaking for the first time about how she got the part and what she’s learned about the character.
It wasn’t an easy or clear path to become the mother for Cristin Milioti, who will appear properly during How I Met Your Mother season 9, scheduled for a premiere September 23.
“I received a phone call from my agents, and they said, ‘How I Met Your Mother would like to interview you for a possible character arc,’ and I asked, ‘What’s the character?’ And they said, ‘We don’t know,'” she told EW in a new interview.
After a Skype meeting and a visit from the producers who wanted to see her in the Broadway show Once, “I was told that I was going to fly to L.A. to test for this role, but I still had no idea what it was,” she said. “They were so secretive, so I had my suspicions. The day I shot [my first scene], it was really on lockdown. All the extras in that train station are producers and writers of the show. It was so beautiful, because I got to meet everyone and they were incredibly welcoming.”
Milioti also talked about what she’s learned about the Mother while filming so far. “She has a unique sense of humor that is very similar to Ted’s,” she revealed. “She’s a young woman who suffers from dad humor…that’s how she rolls. Someone who says a joke and you’re immediately like, ‘Daaaadd!’ Corny isn’t even the word — a little nerdy.”
How I Met Your Mother season 9 premieres in just a few weeks on CBS.
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