EW: You played Girl in “Once,” now “The Mother” on HIMYM. So we have to ask: What is it with you and nameless characters?
Cristin Milioti: You know what? You are the first -person to bring that to my attention, and you’ve blown my mind. Maybe I don’t have a memorable face. [Editor’s note: Not true.] That is really weird.
EW: Tell us about your audition process.
Cristin Milioti: I received a phone call from my agents, and they said, “How I Met Your Mother would like to interview you for a possible character arc,” and I asked, “What’s the character?” And they said, “We don’t know.” So I had a Skype meeting with [creators] Craig [Thomas] and Carter [Bays], and we talked maybe for a half hour. I told them about Once, and a few days later they sent people to the show. Then I was told that I was going to fly to L.A. to test for this role, but I still had no idea what it was. They were so secretive, so I had my suspicions. The day I shot [my first scene], it was really on lockdown. All the extras in that train station are producers and writers of the show. It was so beautiful, because I got to meet everyone and they were incredibly welcoming.
EW: What did you know about the show before you got the role?
Cristin Milioti: I feel really weird about this, but I had never seen it. My whole time in New York I lived in one of those lofts with a giant projection screen, so we just watched TV on the Internet, and I never had the experience of flipping through the channels. I’m catching up on them now — I watch them every day at breakfast.
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Cristin Milioti: You know what? You are the first -person to bring that to my attention, and you’ve blown my mind. Maybe I don’t have a memorable face. [Editor’s note: Not true.] That is really weird.
EW: Tell us about your audition process.
Cristin Milioti: I received a phone call from my agents, and they said, “How I Met Your Mother would like to interview you for a possible character arc,” and I asked, “What’s the character?” And they said, “We don’t know.” So I had a Skype meeting with [creators] Craig [Thomas] and Carter [Bays], and we talked maybe for a half hour. I told them about Once, and a few days later they sent people to the show. Then I was told that I was going to fly to L.A. to test for this role, but I still had no idea what it was. They were so secretive, so I had my suspicions. The day I shot [my first scene], it was really on lockdown. All the extras in that train station are producers and writers of the show. It was so beautiful, because I got to meet everyone and they were incredibly welcoming.
EW: What did you know about the show before you got the role?
Cristin Milioti: I feel really weird about this, but I had never seen it. My whole time in New York I lived in one of those lofts with a giant projection screen, so we just watched TV on the Internet, and I never had the experience of flipping through the channels. I’m catching up on them now — I watch them every day at breakfast.
Read full interview at EW
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