How I Met Your Mother spin-off casts GLOW star in lead role
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How I Met Your Father has a new cast addition.
The How I Met Your Mother spin-off series will focus on Sophie, played by Hilary Duff, telling her son, surprisingly, how she met his father.
GLOW star Chris Lowell is taking on the role of Jesse, a close friend of Sophie.
Deadline describes his character as a cynic when it comes to love, and "smart with a bit of an edge".
The official breakdown adds: "He's an aspiring musician who works as an Uber driver to make ends meet and lives with his best friend Tom."
Lowell has also starred in the Carey Mulligan movie Promising Young Woman, Veronica Mars and the Grey's Anatomy spin-off Private Practice.
Watch: Hilary Duff to lead cast of How I Met Your Mother spin-off
He's also just wrapped up on another Shonda Rhimes series, Inventing Anna.
HIMYF has been in the works for a number of years, but the gears finally got turning when former Lizzie Mcguire star Duff was cast.
"I've been incredibly lucky in my career to play some wonderful characters and I'm looking forward to taking on the role of Sophie," she previously said.
"As a huge fan of How I Met Your Mother I'm honoured and even a little nervous that [the creators of the original series] Carter Bays and Craig Thomas [who are also exec-producing] would trust me with the sequel of their baby.
"Just fangirling over here getting to join the Hulu Originals and 20th families. I realise these are big shoes to fill and I'm excited to slip my 6 ½'s in there."
The official synopsis of the show describes it as "a story that catapults us back to the year 2021 where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends are in the midst of figuring out who they are, what they want out of life, and how to fall in love in the age of dating apps and limitless options".
How I Met Your Father will air on Hulu in the US. It is yet to confirm a UK broadcaster.
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