Cobie Smulders returning for ‘Shrinking’ season 3

How I met your new mother?

Cobie Smulders officially returns to Contraction For season 3 as Sofi, the new potential love for Jimmy de Jason Segel, continuing their how I Met Your Mother meeting.

Contraction The co-creator Bill Lawrence revealed the news in an interview with TVLINE, adding that Smulders will have seen much more when she reproduced in season 3 after her charming appearance in the episode of season 2 “Change patterns”.

“What is cool about the show – and we even said to all actors and actresses when we started – is that it is a program on a small found family that has built a nuclear security bubble around them to pass through the S- -, then people forgive and open these doors,” Lawrence told The Outlet. “This is why you see someone as [One Day at a Time vet] Isabella Gomez, who plays a love interest in the character of Luke Tennie [Sean]… You see Michael J. Fox coming … [and] You see Cobie Smulders coming for Jason as a guy who – you know, you are talking about going ahead, and if not or not [Jimmy] Can find a way to imagine being happy again. “”

Segel and Smulders first played in front of the other on nine seasons of how I Met Your MotherAnd Contraction Staged a meeting on the screen between the actors, because Sofi recently divorced sold a yellow mini-cooper to Jimmy for the 18th anniversary of his daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell). During the sale, Sparks stolen between Jimmy and Sofi while they were linked to the loss of their partners – although Sofi’s situation was a little different, because his ex -husband left her for his best friend (Yikes!). This connection is important because Sofi is the first woman to attract Jimmy’s attention in a healthy way since the loss of his wife.

“I come back with Jason again, which I miss a lot,” said Smulders before Weekly entertainment About his appearance of season 2. “It was immediately one of my friends [sharing the scene]. The show is so well written, and when someone enters a project and the character is already alive from the script, it makes everything so easy … I already have an intimacy with Jason, so he was only playing with a different color during the camera. But Jason is so friendly that it is very easy to be charmed by him. “”

At the time of the beginnings of his episode, Smulders was not sure that Sofi returned. “He is at the driver’s headquarters,” she said. “Jimmy has a very complicated past, and my character came and came like,” there are other things there. “I don’t know if we’re going to build on this.

Earlier this month, when EW Asked Segel if Smulders would return as Sofi in season 3, he kept things vague.

“I can’t give such things,” said Segel. “But I will say, each season, we have a word which is our real North for the theme of the season. Season 1 was” sorrow “, season 2 was” sorry “, and season 3 – I recognize that these are two words -” go ahead “.

Segel also said he liked how his only scene (so far) with Smulders had been able to show another side of Jimmy.

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“There is a very easy trope to fall when you write a great clumsy man is that they are afraid of girls … like Ross de Friends Or some of my first novels, “said Segel.” It is as if he was afraid of girls, you groped around them. And my sweet boost around Jimmy, what I like and it makes him exciting for me is that he is not afraid of women. It is not bad with women. In fact, he had an incredible wife whom he met at the beginning of the twenties and had a fully achieved relationship with all things, including the death of a spouse. “”

He continued: “So I did not want these scenes to be the typical date of trial, someone who does not know how to speak to a woman … Instead, I wanted it to be a guy who really has an underlying shame. So, her thing is:” This woman deserves better than me. “So that’s what I think Jimmy takes in the scenes.” If she saw the real me, she would know that she deserves better. ”

In the meantime, Contraction Star Jessica Williams rooted the return of Smulders. “As a fan, I want to see more,” she told EW. “And I want to do things with her.”