Spoiler Alert! Jennifer Morrison is back on the lot where she spent more than five seasons as House's Dr. Cameron — but this time she's in a new role that showcases a killer comedic side we never knew she had. Jennifer joins CBS' How I Met Your Mother on October 18 as Ted's new love interest, a mischievous architecture nerd named Zoey Van Smoot — the most likely candidate yet to be the titular mom. "Without giving anything away, it's a very, very big character who influences Ted's life quite a bit, so we were being very picky with who we cast," reveals creator Craig Thomas. "We'll see Zoey become a fixture of this group's world."
During a break in filming with Josh Radnor (Ted), Jennifer tells me, "It feels natural to be here." A rabid HIMYM fan, she campaigned hard for the role. "I was in Dallas playing a delusional killer on an episode of [NBC's] Chase [costarring real-life boyfriend Amaury Nolasco] when they called for me to come read with Josh." Adds Josh, "She was the unanimous choice" for the part.
Zoey and Ted hit it off when they meet on the streets of Manhattan and start talking architecture. But the budding flirtation sours when she discovers he's been hired to design a new building in the place of the historic one she's protesting to preserve. "She'll be making his life hell," assures Thomas.
But it turns out Zoey isn't all Ted first believes her to be, with one whammy revealed in her first episode. "That complicates things," says Josh. An additional surprise comes a few episodes later when Ted attends a gala event at the American Museum of Natural History and encounters a woman in a sparkling ball gown who turns out to be Zoey. "He gets a completely different version of this girl," says Thomas. "Maybe there's a little rich princess side to her."
So what's the chance of Jennifer becoming a series regular? "I wouldn't rule anything out," says Thomas. "There's something very kindred about them. In the middle of the season, this takes a big, interesting turn. We will be flashing forward to Ted's wedding day throughout the season. We're talking about seeing Zoey's house, and she'll become part of Ted's Thanksgiving Day, much to his chagrin. And I can tell you she's in our season finale. But whether Jennifer's the mother, I just can't say."
Source: TV Guide Magazine
If she's becoming a permanent fixture in the group, then maybe it's her wedding we saw in the premiere. If she and Ted are close, he could be the best man...and then meet the Mother!
ReplyDeletePeople think that just because Ted was at a wedding on the season premiere it means it was at that wedding he met the mother. But it probably wasn't, because he clearly says that the day he met his wife was the day of a wedding, and it could be any wedding of any day, and also it wasn't necessarily at the wedding it could've been after or before it. And I still think that there's a big chance JM is the mother and that the season premiere wedding is between Barney and Robin.
ReplyDeleteI don't care if she's the mother. I care about how she's related to the story, as long as she's part of HOW Ted meets the mother, it doesn't matter if this is her or not. Personally I think it's her wedding we saw at the end of the last ep which is where Ted meets the mother and that's how it's important to the story.
ReplyDeleteThey blew it by telling us that Ted doesn't meet the woman he marries until he's at a wedding where he's the best man. It's ridiculous for us to even bother investing in any woman Ted meets until we see that. Way to go, Craig Thomas - now no one cares anymore!
ReplyDeleteAlready can't be the mother. They said in the last episode that Ted met the mother at a wedding where he even was the best man.
ReplyDeleteaww i kinda hoped she was the mother
ReplyDeleteMy money's on she's not the mother since they meet on the streets of New York City. And how can he say they're flashing to Ted's wedding day throughout the season when it was made clear in the last episode he's the best man and not the groom.
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