‘How I Met Your Mom’ Star Returns in Spinoff ‘How I Met Your Father’
It’ll be legen…anticipate it…dary!
Neil Patrick Harris is suiting up as soon as once more.
An authentic forged member on How I Met Your Mother, Harris is making a comeback within the present season of spinoff sequence How I Met Your Father, and it will be—properly, legendary.
The 49-year-old actor starred on the original hit sitcom because the charming, suit-wearing schemer Barney Stinson, and now he is reprising the well-known Emmy-nominated function almost 9 years after the present led to 2014.
Throughout the premiere episode of How I Met Your Father Season 2—which aired on Tuesday, Jan. 24—Harris made a shock cameo, showing in a scene with Sophie (Hilary Duff) after she by chance crashes into his luxurious automobile.
Whereas future Sophie (Kim Cattrall) is retelling the story to her son, she is requested who the person from the fender bender was. She replies, “We’ll get there quickly sufficient,” leaving followers to imagine that Barney will likely be taking part in a big function within the present’s plot line.
In an interview with TV Line, creators Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger revealed their hopes for bringing again one other OG forged member (Cobie Smulders additionally reprised her function as Robin Scherbatsky in HIMYF Season 1).
“Each time we discuss bringing again a member of the unique crew, you need it to serve two functions: You wish to give some tidbits about what’s going on of their lives, the place they’ve landed and the place they’re at, but it surely’s additionally about how they affect the How I Met Your Father story and the way they ship one among our characters in a brand new, sudden path,” Aptaker defined. “Much like Robin final 12 months, we’ll study some extra about the place Barney’s at, but it surely’ll even have a significant affect on the trajectory, and principal narrative, of our season.”
He later mentioned Harris’ look in Tuesday’s premiere episode, including, “That automobile crash turns into a significant turning level in Sophie’s life and in her season-long arc. As soon as we catch as much as that, I believe folks will likely be pleasantly stunned by how her story turns by way of Barney.”
It appears to be like like followers will simply have to attend and see what occurs—problem accepted!
How I Met Your Father Season 2 is at the moment airing new episodes each Tuesday on Hulu.