When "How I Met Your Mother" showed us the mother's face in the Season 8 finale, it came as a big surprise to viewers. Almost as big a surprise was the fact that the show managed to keep Cristin Milioti's casting a secret.
The show's creators have spoken about the lengths they went to in order to keep the mother's identity under wraps, and Milioti says at times her casting felt like an undercover operation.
"My agent and manager called and said [creators] Carter [Bays] and Craig [Thomas] were interested in meeting with me via Skype for a possible arc on 'How I Met Your Mother,'" Milioti tells reporters on a conference call. "But we didn't know what the role was, we didn't know anything about it, and they didn't tell us anything about it. ... It was very, very secret. So I said sure, and I had this wonderful Skype meeting...
The show's creators have spoken about the lengths they went to in order to keep the mother's identity under wraps, and Milioti says at times her casting felt like an undercover operation.
"My agent and manager called and said [creators] Carter [Bays] and Craig [Thomas] were interested in meeting with me via Skype for a possible arc on 'How I Met Your Mother,'" Milioti tells reporters on a conference call. "But we didn't know what the role was, we didn't know anything about it, and they didn't tell us anything about it. ... It was very, very secret. So I said sure, and I had this wonderful Skype meeting...
- 9/23/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
It’s (almost) happening! ‘How I Met Your Mother’ returns for its final season Tonight, and we have pics & video from the show’s long-awaited union.
America finally caught a glimpse of How I Met Your Mother‘s mysterious titular character on the eighth season finale; and now, as the CBS sitcom launches into its ninth and final season, it’s time for the rest of the cast to get acquainted with Cristin Milioti‘s game-changing persona. The Sept. 23 premiere will find the gang coming face to face with “the mother” for the first time, and based on these sneak peeks, it’s definitely been worth the wait.
‘Himym’ Season 9 Premiere
Are you ready for the longest weekend of your life? Himym‘s final season takes place solely during Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin’s (Cobie Smulders) wedding weekend, where Ted (Josh Radnor) met his own bride for the...
America finally caught a glimpse of How I Met Your Mother‘s mysterious titular character on the eighth season finale; and now, as the CBS sitcom launches into its ninth and final season, it’s time for the rest of the cast to get acquainted with Cristin Milioti‘s game-changing persona. The Sept. 23 premiere will find the gang coming face to face with “the mother” for the first time, and based on these sneak peeks, it’s definitely been worth the wait.
‘Himym’ Season 9 Premiere
Are you ready for the longest weekend of your life? Himym‘s final season takes place solely during Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin’s (Cobie Smulders) wedding weekend, where Ted (Josh Radnor) met his own bride for the...
- 9/23/2013
- by Andy Swift
- HollywoodLife
The Mother is here, and she’s delightful!
Not only will she charm Lily in How I Met Your Mother‘s Season 9 premiere (airing Monday at 8/7c), but she’ll also win over Ted when the two share some “exciting” screentime together in the CBS comedy’s swan song, new series regular Cristin Milioti reveals to TVLine.
Read on for scoop from the actress about meeting Ted’s pals, learning the future Mrs. Mosby’s name and much more!
Photos | Fall TV Spoiler Spectacular: Exclusive Scoop on How I Met Your Mother and 44 Other Returning Faves
Tvline | How has the...
Not only will she charm Lily in How I Met Your Mother‘s Season 9 premiere (airing Monday at 8/7c), but she’ll also win over Ted when the two share some “exciting” screentime together in the CBS comedy’s swan song, new series regular Cristin Milioti reveals to TVLine.
Read on for scoop from the actress about meeting Ted’s pals, learning the future Mrs. Mosby’s name and much more!
Photos | Fall TV Spoiler Spectacular: Exclusive Scoop on How I Met Your Mother and 44 Other Returning Faves
Tvline | How has the...
- 9/19/2013
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
When CBS announced that Season 9 of "How I Met Your Mother" would be its last one, and that it would unfold entirely over the course of Robin (Cobie Smulders) and Barney's (Neil Patrick Harris) wedding weekend, the reaction was ... mixed.
Would fans who waited eight years to see Ted's (Josh Radnor) future wife (Cristin Milioti) have to wait another entire season to see him finally encounter her face-to-face, all in service of a wedding the show has teased for the better part of two years? At first blush, it seemed like a grand exercise in delaying the inevitable.
"The whole 'it's going to be the weekend before the wedding' thing, I get the reaction," co-creator Carter Bays tells Zap2it. "If you haven't been in the writers' room with us cooking it up and you just hear that, you'd think 'They're just pushing back the end-zone line.'"
He hopes,...
Would fans who waited eight years to see Ted's (Josh Radnor) future wife (Cristin Milioti) have to wait another entire season to see him finally encounter her face-to-face, all in service of a wedding the show has teased for the better part of two years? At first blush, it seemed like a grand exercise in delaying the inevitable.
"The whole 'it's going to be the weekend before the wedding' thing, I get the reaction," co-creator Carter Bays tells Zap2it. "If you haven't been in the writers' room with us cooking it up and you just hear that, you'd think 'They're just pushing back the end-zone line.'"
He hopes,...
- 9/9/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
First off: a little history, on one of my favorite shows on television currently: How I Met Your Mother. Produced by Bob Saget, this series has been one of the most successful sitcoms in the last decade.
Focused around finding the mother to Josh Randor’s (Ted Mosby) kids, this show entails the scenarios and adventures taken by Ted, and his four friends, who all reside in New York, which is claimed to be the best city on Earth. The people who claimed it: Lily, Marshall, Robin, Barney and Ted. Every character has a different outlook on life, and thus, the series makes up for an interesting mixture of a ladies man, a perfect lover, and hard core dating enthusiast. Combined with the two ladies of the show, with each of them being best friends, while being completely different, adds to the excitement of How I Met Your Mother, and...
Focused around finding the mother to Josh Randor’s (Ted Mosby) kids, this show entails the scenarios and adventures taken by Ted, and his four friends, who all reside in New York, which is claimed to be the best city on Earth. The people who claimed it: Lily, Marshall, Robin, Barney and Ted. Every character has a different outlook on life, and thus, the series makes up for an interesting mixture of a ladies man, a perfect lover, and hard core dating enthusiast. Combined with the two ladies of the show, with each of them being best friends, while being completely different, adds to the excitement of How I Met Your Mother, and...
- 6/29/2013
- by Siddharth Grover
- Obsessed with Film
It took eight seasons and countless near encounters, but we finally got to meet Ted’s wife on ‘How I Met Your Mother’, and it was totally worth the wait because the perfect person was chosen!
After 183 episodes, eight seasons, and countless random guest stars, at long last hardcore fans know who Ted’s (Josh Radnor) future wife is! The mother/girl with the yellow umbrella was revealed on the How I Met Your Mother season finale on May 13, and I think the producers got it so right when they picked Ted’s lucky lady!
Cristin Milioti Is Perfect To Play Ted’s Future Wife
Stunning Broadway actress Cristin Milioti is Ted’s wife!
For seasons and seasons we have been teased with who would end up being the mother — for all a while we thought it was going to be Robin (Cobie Smulders), then there was the fear that...
After 183 episodes, eight seasons, and countless random guest stars, at long last hardcore fans know who Ted’s (Josh Radnor) future wife is! The mother/girl with the yellow umbrella was revealed on the How I Met Your Mother season finale on May 13, and I think the producers got it so right when they picked Ted’s lucky lady!
Cristin Milioti Is Perfect To Play Ted’s Future Wife
Stunning Broadway actress Cristin Milioti is Ted’s wife!
For seasons and seasons we have been teased with who would end up being the mother — for all a while we thought it was going to be Robin (Cobie Smulders), then there was the fear that...
- 5/14/2013
- by Eleanore Hutch
- HollywoodLife
So, who is the girl with the yellow umbrella?
Her name is Cristin Milioti, a 27-year-old New Jersey actress who’s shown up on Broadway, in films, and on television: The Broadway set will know Milioti as “Girl” in the musical version of Once, a role which earned her a Tony nomination last year; film buffs will recognize her from movies like 2012′s Mike Birbiglia comedy Sleepwalk with Me; and TV fans may remember her from The Sopranos, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie, or — most notably — 30 Rock. (Milioti showed up in 2011 as a baby-voiced comedy writer whom Liz Lemon (Tina Fey...
Her name is Cristin Milioti, a 27-year-old New Jersey actress who’s shown up on Broadway, in films, and on television: The Broadway set will know Milioti as “Girl” in the musical version of Once, a role which earned her a Tony nomination last year; film buffs will recognize her from movies like 2012′s Mike Birbiglia comedy Sleepwalk with Me; and TV fans may remember her from The Sopranos, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie, or — most notably — 30 Rock. (Milioti showed up in 2011 as a baby-voiced comedy writer whom Liz Lemon (Tina Fey...
- 5/14/2013
- by Tanner Stransky
- EW - Inside TV
Chicago – It’s Valentine’s Day, and along with the impossible to get dinner reservations, the decision of which movie to see has probably spoiled this holiday as much as Walgreen roses. But the romantic drama ‘Safe Haven’ is a well performed, well paced narrative that won’t make you gag, and that includes you wishing-to-see-Die-Hard dudes.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Credit for this probably goes to director Lasse Hallström (“Chocolat,” “Casanova”) who knows a thing about romantic canoodling, and the earnest cast that includes Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel. Based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks (“The Notebook”), the story itself has an air of well established mystery, which adds some depth to the characters that make them more interesting. Hallstrom also adds some touches that are unexpected, with a nod toward Hitchcock. Also Hough and Duhamel’s characters are seeking some sort of redemption, which makes a love story more motivated and savory.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Credit for this probably goes to director Lasse Hallström (“Chocolat,” “Casanova”) who knows a thing about romantic canoodling, and the earnest cast that includes Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel. Based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks (“The Notebook”), the story itself has an air of well established mystery, which adds some depth to the characters that make them more interesting. Hallstrom also adds some touches that are unexpected, with a nod toward Hitchcock. Also Hough and Duhamel’s characters are seeking some sort of redemption, which makes a love story more motivated and savory.
- 2/14/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Before you head out to the multiplex be sure and pack up the tissues because it’s time for another heart-tugger from the pen (or keyboard) of Nicholas Sparks (whose The Notebook was a huge box office smash). Almost a year ago the screen adaptation of his work The Lucky One hit the cinemas with attractive young actors deciding whether to give love another chance. And now with Safe Haven he presents us with a story of attractive young…you get the drift. If that were the only similarity! So is this the perfect date flick for the most romantic of holidays (too bad there’s not heart-shaped popcorn)?
Haven doesn’t start with images of hearts of flowers. We’re hit with the sight of a young, attractive long-haired brunette (Julianne Hough) barefooted, blood-splattered (not her own), clutching a pillowcase and dashing about a Boston suburb at twilight. A...
Haven doesn’t start with images of hearts of flowers. We’re hit with the sight of a young, attractive long-haired brunette (Julianne Hough) barefooted, blood-splattered (not her own), clutching a pillowcase and dashing about a Boston suburb at twilight. A...
- 2/14/2013
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Langford's Picks And Pans
Casualty
I don’t think Casualty has had a regular gay character since Toby and Ben a few years ago. I really loved Toby and Ben, together and as individual characters and wasn’t happy when the show wrote them off. So it’s nice that the show has finally added a regular gay character to the cast and I like Jamie quite a bit. I’m so glad that he’s not closeted and isn’t struggling with his sexuality, though it’s obvious that his father discovering he’s gay is going to be a storyline at some point.
As for the plot about the teenage boy with gender dysphoria, I thought that it was an interesting storyline. It was really quite sweet the lengths and risks that Zack took just to see Danny and make sure he’s all right. When Danny was...
Casualty
I don’t think Casualty has had a regular gay character since Toby and Ben a few years ago. I really loved Toby and Ben, together and as individual characters and wasn’t happy when the show wrote them off. So it’s nice that the show has finally added a regular gay character to the cast and I like Jamie quite a bit. I’m so glad that he’s not closeted and isn’t struggling with his sexuality, though it’s obvious that his father discovering he’s gay is going to be a storyline at some point.
As for the plot about the teenage boy with gender dysphoria, I thought that it was an interesting storyline. It was really quite sweet the lengths and risks that Zack took just to see Danny and make sure he’s all right. When Danny was...
- 2/13/2013
- by Anthony D. Langford
- The Backlot
Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen tonight’s How I Met Your Mother, do not continue reading.
Monday night’s episode of How I Met Your Mother was not short on memorable moments, and in fact, the episode, which saw Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin (Cobie Smulders) getting engaged, is being dubbed by some as one of the best episode of the series.
But even before the episode had hit television screens, executive producer/co-creator Craig Thomas knew it was something special.
“I was on set for , and it was just one of those moments where you feel...
Monday night’s episode of How I Met Your Mother was not short on memorable moments, and in fact, the episode, which saw Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin (Cobie Smulders) getting engaged, is being dubbed by some as one of the best episode of the series.
But even before the episode had hit television screens, executive producer/co-creator Craig Thomas knew it was something special.
“I was on set for , and it was just one of those moments where you feel...
- 12/18/2012
- by Sandra Gonzalez
- EW - Inside TV
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