In the "The O'SHOW" interview, Cobie Smulders revealed that Robin's history as a pop star was her favorite "How I Met Your Mother" storyline. She also shared that the show's creators, Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, approached her before Season 2 to tell her about Robin Sparkles. "I loved the Robin Sparkles stuff because it was so weird. And it was so strange to be like — I think it was the second season, I think it was, and they kind of came at me, and they were like, 'we're thinking about making Robin like a Canadian pop star from the '80s,' and I was like 'what?'" recalled the "Avengers: Age of Ultron" star.
She went on to say that she enjoyed spending hours on set shooting the Robin Sparkles music videos. "It was just so strange. And joyful. You know what I mean, it was just really fun, so I loved that," she shared.
While Smulders did not have a pop career, she and her "How I Met Your Mother" character share a few similarities. Like Robin, the actress hails from Canada. In a May 2012 interview with George Stroumboulopoulos, Smulders revealed Thomas and Bay decided to have the journalist be a Canadian native after Season 1. "Second season, they said 'we're thinking about making Robin a Canadian,' and I was like 'okay' and they said 'we think it's exotic.' And I was like, 'never been called that in my life, but sure, sure, let's do it,'" quipped Smulders.
