Cobie Smulders may not have playedthe mother on How I Met Your Mother, but in reality, she is one. Though its a tough job being a parent, the actress recently found something thats equally, if not more,challenging: being in a Tom Cruise movie.It was the most physically demanding thing I ever had to do in my life, and Ive given birth twice if thats saying anything, said Smulders when talking about training for Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.Smulders plays Major Susan Turner in the film, and she wanted to live up to what actual women have to do to earn that position.Its one of those things I look back on, and I trained so hard for that because its really important to me to portray this woman in a realistic way. The real women who decide to enlist to work their way up in the ranks to become a Majorin the United States Army are some freakintough broads.Smulders knows something about being a tough broad herself. She prepared for the movie while also caring for her children.I was also there with my 8-month-old baby, so it was just a very intense period for me,but I did it, I freakin did it, the actress, who also has a 7-year-old daughter with husband Taran Killam, said.The job had its perks too, thoughperks that working mothers know how to appreciate.I said to everybody involved, Tom, you should only hire mothers to work with you because we are so grateful that you provide [these things], Smulders said of Cruises kindness. I would show up every day, and there was this cooler of my breakfast, snacks and lunch and dinner, and I dont have to go shopping and think of what to [make]. I can just show up and eat whats in my cooler, and you tell me where to go and what to do. Its so the opposite of my life being a mom of two and trying to work. Im constantly making decisions and having to coordinate when you do that kind of thing. Its like,Just tell me where to go, how to do it and Ill just train and Ill eat this stuff and eventually well shoot this movie. Smulders also reflected on the fact that, at the same time they decided to make her character a graduate of the Army Rangersin the film, the first two women graduated from the Ranger School in real life.Its a type of thing thats happening in the world where this should just be normal, said the actress.Portraying a strong female character on screen, especially nowadays, means everything to Smulders. Though, she adds that shes played a variety of characters and powerful women can be found anywhere.Sometimes I feel like women of the world who are single moms and are working in Walmart are the strongest women out there, and thats whats really exciting to me is being all these different types of women.Smulders plays another strong character, Maria Hill, in the Avengers movies. Shealong with many of her Avengers castmates, such as Chris Evans and Mark Ruffalo has been supportive of the recent Womens Marches and protests happening around the country.It gives me hope to go out to protest, to do something, and I think people choose to do that in different ways, whether thats through Twitter, whether thats through speeches, she said. Were lucky to live in a country where we have freedom of speech, and I dont know what the other Avengers are up to, personally, but I know theyre all really good people. Theyre inherently good people, every single person that Ive ever worked with on an Avengers film. I think they want to do good, and they want people to be happy, and they want to speak what they believe.If you didnt think Smulders was a superhero in real life, you dont know Jack ... Reacher. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back is now available on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and On Demand. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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