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Remember How I Met Your Mother? The series was one of the best running shows on the TV screen and had a successful run time of nine years from 2005 to 2014. Adored for its very beautiful storyline and a fun-packed group of characters, the series has been highly missed by fans, and there have been thousands of requests asking for the series to come back. 

The show creators did finally agree on a spinoff, and now the fans of HIMYM get to see How I Met Your Father. Not necessarily a version of the show from just a female perspective, the new spinoff series shows a varied perspective of the series from the original show and a diverse storyline. The latest spinoff series features Hillary Duff as Sophie, the lead character of the show, and airs on Hulu with two episodes already up for streaming. 

Recently, the show creators of How I met Your Father, Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, sat down with Screen Rant and shared everything that went into creating this piece of nostalgic cinema. The showrunners pondered over the various things that make the show similar to How I Met Your Mother and then many other facts that make it different. 

The one very big difference that the audience will get to see in How I Met Your Mother and How I Met Your Father is the identity of the Mother and Father. It is a quite well-known fact that the ending of the original series was filmed way back in 2006, even before the rest of the show was filmed or produced, for that matter. However, the new show is very keen on not wanting to let the identity of the Father out just yet. 

In fact, even the show producer and lead actress Duff does not know who the father is going to be. In an interview with Collider alongside Chris Lowell, Hillary Duff shared that the showrunners are very concerned about not letting any spoilers get around. Because the cast of the series is very good friends with each other, a single person knowing the identity of the father means that the news will quickly get out. 

When Screen Rant asked if Kim Catrall, the actress who will play the future version of Hillary Duff's Sophie knows who the father is, the creators replied that no one does yet. Isaac Aptaker said, "Oh, she does not know. Nobody knows but us. I don't think, right? We haven't told anyone. And Elizabeth Berger confirmed it by saying, "No. We did not do that."

Now it is interesting to note if the actor who will eventually play the father knows that they are the father. Funnily enough, even that actor does not know the paternal issues they will have to manage in the series one day. The series being just in its first season and that also has aired only two episodes, the creators are taking some liberty with the time that they have. Yet they know where they are headed towards with the characters and the roles they will play. 

"I mean, we're obviously in very early days of our show here, so we always like to have a plan. We come from This Is Us, where making a roadmap was very important as we moved through each season and we live by, that you need that and that that will help you succeed in your storytelling'" shared Berger. "We have general notions of where we're going, and we have ideas, but we have not, I would say, etched those notions in stone just yet, but we do have ideas."

So now that is clear, the next biggest question from every fan who enjoyed the original series is if the legacy cast of the show will ever make an appearance in the new show. As the series is taking place in the same New York City as How I Met Your Mother, and the universe is the same, there is so much of a chance that someone from the original series will show up in the new show. 

Aptaker admitted, "What I think is so cool about this show, and the sequel nature of it is where the connection is that we're living in the same version of New York, the same television universe of the original."

 "So the possibilities are endless, whether it's locations that our characters crossed through, whether it's deep background random characters that only the most diehard fans would ever recognize or whether Neil Patrick Harris walks through the door of Sid's bar one day, it's all on tape,” he added." So there is definitely a chance that we will get to see some of the legacy cast members once again in similar settings. 

Talking about the similarities between Ted Mosby and Sophie, the creator said, "I think what's so charming about both characters is that they just are not giving up. They believe that there's a person out there for them, and they're going to keep dusting themselves off until they find that person." Yet Sophie is just not the female Ted Mosby. Hence, Aptaker added, "Obviously, it's very exciting this time around for us to tell the story through a female point of view, which obviously differentiates it from Ted's perspective."

Hillary Duff stars as Sophie in HIMYF; Credits: Screen Rant

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