Cobie Smulders has experience with iconic roles and well-known franchises. Before being cast as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill for the Marvel Cinematic Universe beginning with 2012’s The Avengers, the actress had already established herself as a sitcom queen as Robin Scherbatsky in the cast of CBS’ How I Met Your Mother. Over the course of the nine-season run of the Carter Bays and Craig Thomas-created sitcom, Smulders featured in all 208 episodes.
In an interview with Vanity Fair to promote her Disney+ short series Secret Invasion, Smulders discussed how HIMYM helped her understand her character’s fate in MCU while finally revealing to whom she confides all her franchise secrets.
Cobie Smulders admits to revealing Marvel secrets to her husband
It appears that Cobie Smulders has discovered the key to winning over her husband’s love of comic books. Taran Killam, an actor to who Smulders is married to, calls himself “a crazy fan” of the MCU. Smulders recently admitted that her husband gets to know the updates on various Marvel characters since they read the scripts together at home. Talking to the media, she said
“He reads the scripts because we’re married — I mean, that’s allowed, right Kevin Feige?”
She added,
“I mean it’s there, it’s in my office — what he does with his time is what he does with his time…so he gets to read the scripts, he gets to come and visit and see the sets and is a part of it. What if I didn’t tell him anything and I just held it over him like a power play?”
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Smulders and Killam got married in 2012, the same year she starred in The Avengers as Maria Hill. Since then, she has appeared in six films set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, including Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame. Killam, 37, is also an actor; he has roles in films like Grown Ups 2 and 12 Years a Slave.
How HIMYM helped Cobie Smulders understand Maria Hill’s fate
Josh Radnor played Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother. Bob Saget played Ted’s counterpart 25 years later, trying to tell his adolescent children about his and his friends’ dating exploits. Ted’s contentious revelation that Tracy McConnell (Cristin Milioti), the children’s mother, passed away from an unknown disease six years prior to Ted’s decision to inform them about it, marked the conclusion of the series. His kids want him to ask Robin out when he finishes the story, so he does. An alternative ending was removed and made accessible in the DVD version.
Smulders, who starred in a number of MCU films and TV shows, is aware that Marvel fans may be just as fanatical as HIMYM fans, but she still has faith in the process.
“I mean, listen, it would’ve been great. Of course, I would’ve loved to do more, but I trust that Marvel is doing the storyline that they think is best. I feel bad if their reaction is negative and they don’t like it, but I think that there is also something positive to take away from that. They were so connected to the story and these characters that they cared. That is beautiful and wonderful.”
Smulders’ character, Maria Hill, shockingly, got killed off at the conclusion of the latest installment of Secret Invasion. Even though the ending has made a lot of fans angry, it looks like Smulders believes there is more to the story.
Source: Cheat Sheet
