After spending all those years playing the witch Willow on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and telling band camp stories in the "American Pie" movies, Alyson Hannigan is having a good time playing kooky newlywed Lily on the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother.”
“Each episode is just getting better and better,” she told me recently. “Marshall (Jason Segal)and Lily are exploring being married. It’s a lot of fun. We get our own place - well we look into getting our own place - I won’t tell you if it works out or not.”
Too late!
The Monday night show on CBS is now in its third season and seems to finally be getting the critical and audience attention that it deserves. Hannigan says the cast has become a pretty tight-knit ensemble.
“We just crack each other up all day long. It couldn’t be a better environment.”
Now that Marshall and Lily have finally managed to get married, Hannigan thinks that maybe Barney (Emmy nominee Neil Patrick Harris) should leave his swinging bachelor days behind him: “I want Barney to settle down! I want him to fall madly in love and maybe even get his heart broken a little but then let it work out. I’d like to see the domesticated Barney.”
OK Alyson, so tell us. Who is the “mother” in “How I Met Your Mother”?
“My vote is still Jennifer Aniston but I don’t know. I don’t know if they’ve figured it out yet.”