Katie Holmes new role? Slutty Pumpkin!
Katie Holmes is returning to TV – briefly.
Katie will join a long list of seasoned actors who guest star on ‘How I Met Your Mother’. The actress joins the likes of Rachel Bilson, Sarah Chalke, Jennifer Morrison and Laura Prepon.
According to NY Magazine’s Vulture, Katie Holmes has been invited to appear on the show’s Halloween episode next month – in a role called ‘Slutty Pumpkin’. A role so important, the series sixth episode will be named after her.
At a Halloween party Ted attended in 2001, he met a woman dressed as a free-loving gourd, learned a handful of facts about her, and wrote her number on the wrapper of a candy bar, only to have Lily (Alyson Hannigan) give it away. Since then, Ted has attended the same party every year, hoping against hope that this particular Pumpkin will return. It’s sort of like Linus and the Great Pumpkin, plus the hope of casual sex.
Still best known either as Joey Potter of “Dawson’s Creek,” or as Mrs. Tom Cruise (depends whom you ask), the 32-year-old Holmes was last seen on TV playing First Lady Jackie Kennedy in the Reelz miniseries “The Kennedys”; she’s also currently in theatres in the feature “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.”
Vulture’s report doesn’t indicate that Holmes will appear in more than one episode; rather, her, er, “Promiscuous Fruit” is part of what series co-creator Carter Bays has described as Ted’s “exorcising…his demons” by revisiting some of the women in his past. It’s too bad Holmes probably won’t recur: Victoria is fine and all, but can her cupcakes really compete with a jack-o’-lantern costume embellished with strategic (erotic) cut-outs?
Seems very un-Katie Holmes, but that’s probably exactly why she’s doing it. Either way – I’ll watch for sure!
