Artwork formally imitates life for Cobie Smulders.
This yr, her and husband Taran Killam’s eldest little one, Shaelyn, turned 13. And now in Freevee’s Excessive Faculty, Smulders performs a mother to two teenagers who’re on observe to turn into the indie pop duo Tegan and Sara.
Premiering this Friday with the primary 4 of eight episodes, Excessive Faculty is described as “a narrative about discovering your individual id — a journey made much more difficult when you might have a twin whose personal battle and self-discovery so carefully mimics your individual.” Advised by a backdrop of ‘90s grunge and rave tradition, the collection weaves between the parallel and sometimes discordant recollections of dual sisters Tegan and Sara (performed by TikTok creators Railey and Seazynn Gilliland) as they develop up down the corridor from each other.
Smulders and fellow sitcom vet Kyle Bornheimer play the ladies’ dad and mom, Simone and Patrick.
Within the TVLine video Q&A above, Smulders talks in regards to the particular challenges that Simone faces as Tegan and Sara’s mother, and the way this explicit performing expertise left her feeling about daughter Shaelyn’s personal teen years forward. (Although as Smulders is fast to confess, “I used to be a tough teen, so if something is coming my approach, it’s 100-percent karma.”)
Seazynn and Railey Gilliland
Smulders then shares the God’s sincere fact about whether or not, in gentle of the aforementioned casting for Tegan and Sara, she both “Tiks” or “Toks.”
Lastly, on the 2:30 mark, we get to speaking — effectively, as a lot because the notorious Marvel “snipers” will allow us to — about Secret Invasion, the Spring 2023 Disney+ collection by which Smulders and Samuel L. Jackson reprise their MCU roles as Maria Hill and Nick Fury.
