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Robin Scherbatsky returned to MacLaren’s Bar practically 8 yeas after we mentioned goodbye to our favourite Canadian information reporter and her gang of pals on the long-running CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mom. Cobie Smulders seemed like she hadn’t aged a day as she slipped again into the world of HIMYM, this time within the Hulu spin-off starring Hilary Duff titled How I Met Your Father. “It was simply such a enjoyable day,” she instructed HollywoodLife in an EXCLUSIVE interview., whereas recalling capturing the finale episode. “They recreated your entire MacLaren’s set and it was actually a weird expertise! Strolling into it was like flashing again 10 years!”

Cobie continued, “It was such an exquisite like stroll down reminiscence lane for me. I very a lot take pleasure in taking part in Robin Scherbatsky for the 9 years I bought to and it was good to only pop again in!” The spin-off was renewed for a season 2 shortly after its 10-episode premiere season, and Hulu introduced the sequel could be getting supersized with 20 episodes. Within the finale of season 1, Robin helps Hilary’s character Sophie by means of some boy hassle, as her friend-turned-something-more Jesse (Chris Lowell) mentioned “I like you” throughout their first night time collectively — which is one thing HIMYM followers know Robin is aware of a factor or two about.
As for Cobie making a return as Robin within the upcoming season 2, she mentioned she could be “blissful to return again in!” “I haven’t had any conversations with anybody, but when it is smart to their present and the season and the storylines occurring, I’d be blissful to return again in!” she gushed.

When trying again on her time taking part in the scotch-drinking, cigar-smoking, pop-star-turned-journalist, Cobie mentioned she feels just like the solid “actually lucked out, as a result of we had such nice writers that allowed us to do numerous various things.” “I feel that generally whenever you’re doing a long-running sitcom, you may sort of get typecast and keep inside sure behaviors and sure jokes, and issues it’s important to continually be doing, so it was good that I bought to do the Robin Sparkles stuff, after which she was a reporter, as effectively. It was at all times fluid and so they had been at all times permitting us to strive various things so that you by no means felt caught,” she defined. “Even when there was one thing that was cringe-worthy, it was nonetheless good to get a possibility to strive one thing new!”
Talking of sparkles, Cobie spoke to HL in partnership with Colgate to debate her new marketing campaign with them to lift consciousness of wanted optimism and announce the Colgate Smile Fund donation to Metropolis Yr. “I’ve liked the model for thus lengthy, and once they got here to me about serving to unfold consciousness concerning the Colgate Smile Fund, I used to be actually enthusiastic about it, particularly this one grant that they’re giving to a company referred to as Metropolis Yr,” Cobie instructed HL. “It’s a company that goes into colleges and so they present mentoring for teenagers and assist develop socio-emotional abilities to create extra empathy and for youngsters to create self-awareness and self-confidence.”

Colgate’s Smile Fund donation will help within the improvement of social-emotional coaching sources and capability constructing for Metropolis Yr AmeriCorps members; younger adults who serve full time in colleges. The coaching will assist AmeriCorps members of their function as pupil success coaches, serving to kids construct important life abilities like self-awareness, self-management, social consciousness, relationship-building and decision-making. The work will in the end influence virtually a quarter-million kids in systemically under-resourced colleges within the upcoming 2022-2023 college 12 months.
To be taught extra concerning the Colgate Smile Fund initiative and Colgate’s dedication to championing optimism in motion, go to Colgate.com/optimism.