The series, which re-proposes the formula of “How I Met Your Mother”, tells the sentimental intrigues by making a portrait of today’s world
“How I Met Your Mother” is still considered one of the most successful comedy shows of the past decade. It debuted in 2004 and ran for nine seasons, produced by CBS. It was the detailed story that the protagonist, Ted, told his children of the sentimental-romantic-adventurous events that had preceded the meeting with the other parent.
“How I Met Your Father”, now available on Disney +, repeats the same formula with a couple of changes. The first is about gender: now her protagonist, Sophie, is a woman who tells her son how she met her father twenty years before her. The second is that Sophie is on the screen in two versions, the young one, of the memory, and the future one, of the story.
To interpret them are Kim Cattrall and Hilary Duff, two veterans of the small screen, the first was man-eating Samantha in “Sex and the City”, the second, singer and actress from the Disney nursery, made her TV debut in 2001 with Lizzie McGuire. Kim Cattrall is therefore the narrator, the woman of the future who tells about her youth, Hilary Duff is the Sophie of our days, in a New York where Tinder is used to meet and Uber to move around.
“Sophie is open, naive, good-hearted. A little clumsy, she doesn’t mind falling and getting hurt. She always knows how to get up and never loses her enthusiasm, ”says Hilary Duff who, at 34, with a husband and three children, she couldn’t be further from Sophie still looking for stability and love. “That’s exactly why I found this role so fresh and inspiring. Sophie doesn’t have the pressure that I have, especially she doesn’t have three children to raise and support. You have others, of pressures, very different from mine ». Hilary Duff, in fact, knew her success when she was very young and her personal experiences have adapted to her career needs.
“I got married very early and had a son, then I got divorced and had to take into consideration the fact that I had a baby when I decided to commit to a new relationship. All very serious and reasoned, no possible header ». Duff is married to actor and musician Matthew Koma with whom she has two children, Mae and Banks
From his first marriage, at the age of 23 with the hockey champion on ice Mike Comrie, Luca was born. «Sophie makes me live a piece of youth that I have missed, she is really my opposite, she throws herself and gets hurt but she is a lot of fun. She opens her heart, every time, and she firmly believes that love is out there. “
A romanticism of the past that does not clash with her being a girl today, using apps for romantic dating, getting around and booking a restaurant. «This series reflects the contemporary world – she says the actress -, she describes what a group of friends can be, today, in NY. How and where do you see guys, how do they get there on dates, how do they know each other? How do they communicate? With apps. It seems trivial but it is something that had not yet been seen on TV ».
Then there is another element of modernity, which has to do with contemporary inclusive thinking. The previous “How I Met Your Mother” was criticized for showing a group of all-white friends. It was the Hollywood of the last century, the heir to “Friends”.
Friends now come from different backgrounds, just as the representation of their sexuality is different. “A group of only white and only heterosexual friends would not have been more credible – says Duff, who is also a producer of the series – so we painted a more realistic picture and to do it we didn’t even have to think about it. It was just a matter of being authentic. ‘
May 10, 2022 (change May 10, 2022 | 22:00)
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