Golden Globe winner Kim Cattrall (Sex And The City, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) has reportedly joined the cast of Hulu’s How I Met Your Mother remake, How I Met Your Father, according to Deadline. Cattrall will be playing the older version of Hillary Duff’s (Lizzy McGuire, Younger) character, much like how Bob Saget (Full House, How I Met Your Mother) played the older version of the original show’s main character.
The show will feature Cattrall’s character telling her child the story of how she met his father, and through flashbacks we will see Duff’s character (Sophie) and her group of friends navigate love and life in 2021.
Cattrall’s most recent work in television includes CBS’s series Tell Me A Story and Fox’s newest show, Filthy Rich. She also starred in a Swedish series called Modus. However, her most recognizable role is as her character from Sex And The City, Samantha Jones, a role for which she earned her sole supporting actress Golden Globe along with Screen Actor’s Guild awards.
How I Met Your Father will see a lot of familiar faces from its predecessor working on it; such as the original creators Carter Bays (The Goodwin Games, How I Met Your Mother) and Craig Thomas (The Goodwin Games, How I Met Your Mother) returning to executive produce.
Also returning is the original series’ director/executive producer Pam Fryman (Truth Be Told, How I Met Your Mother) to direct more episodes of the newly formed remake.
Chris Lowell (Private Practice, Promising Young Woman) and Josh Peck (Drake and Josh, Turner and Hooch) are also slated to star in the show as members of the main friend group in the same sense as Jason Segal’s (I Love You Man, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Neil Patrick Harris’s (Gone Girl, Smurfs) characters from the original.
The show was announced in April 2021 by Hulu, and is reportedly to be released sometime in 2022.