Ohhh!” There’s opportunity everywhere for Sophie, and she can’t freaking see it.

TVLINE | Was the new framework — that Sophie has already met the father — part of what appealed to you about doing this show.

I think if we were trying to copy the original show, there’s just no way to live up to that?

Sophie is not Ted, and there’s not someone trying to be Barney.

I love that the writers used the very first episode as an opportunity to show the occupants of this apartment, where everyone fell in love with the original cast, but you know that we’re all going down a very different road.

Is there a little part of Sophie that’s looking at him a different way because of this one moment?” So I try to never close the door [on any one possibility].

There are a lot of different opportunities here for the guys to be involved with Sophie somehow.

[As Sophie], I think if I just open up my heart, there’s always that opportunity for it to swing either way.