![]() You don’t want to lay some girl that you’re supposed to lay, who you don’t like, but you don’t want anyone to know that. “You want to lay someone who wants to lay you you want to say who you like and get to lay that person. ![]() Because people know that you’re sexual and that’s who you like, and you’re not guarded and sketchy and awkward. And so the coming-out process, given that, is a great move. “I’m intoxicated and turned on by people who are really honest about themselves. “I do think it’s important to take ownership of those type of things,” he says. “Some actors don’t get hired because you can’t look into their soul and see what they’re like, because they’re kept guarded.” “Once all cards were on the table, I got more opportunities than ever,” he says. Since then, HIMYM went from critical favorite to one of the most popular sitcoms of the decade, even as NPH became a go-to awards-show host (he’s done the Tonys four times, and the Emmys twice) and got ever-larger movie roles (this year he has important parts in two big, very different films: Seth MacFarlane’s Ted follow-up, A Million Ways to Die in the West, and David Fincher’s adaptation of Gone Girl). It was like, ‘Leaping into new chapters.'”īurning Man Shut Down Due to Heavy Rain, Stranding Attendees ![]() Whitewater raft, why not? Odds are you’re going to be OK! Jump out of a plane with a parachute? Done it! Not on a weekly basis or anything – when I was 21 and when I was 30, on my birthday. “I like being on a high wire,” he says with a shrug. Consider the cool-eyed grace and virtuosity he brought to the Rube Goldberg-meets-Busby Berkeley, cast-of-thousands opening number he anchored at last year’s Tony Awards, winning a two-minute standing ovation. He studied videos of old Stooges concerts, removed the Sondheim-ready vibrato from his singing voice, and remade his posture and body language into everything Barney wasn’t: “All of the elements of his physical being had to shift in a seismic way to allow this performance to flower,” says the show’s director, Michael Mayer.īut pulling off the impossible, making it look like he’s gliding through life, is kind of Harris’ thing. But even as he wrapped up his ninth and final season of playing hyper-hetero pickup artist Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother, Harris reached somewhere inside himself and pulled out a heart-rending Hedwig. Though Harris was the only choice for Hedwig’s creators, the role is not a natural fit: He has close to zero affinity for rock & roll (his current obsession: Forties songstresses the Andrews Sisters) and, as a determinedly butch gay guy, he spent years pruning trace effeminacies from his mannerisms. But I’m running out of energy, and it’s affecting my mood.”ġ1 Things You Learn After Spending a Week With Neil Patrick Harris I’m so intent on looking feminine, on changing my silhouette. “I need to eat more,” says Harris, who just pushed himself through a 45-minute cardio workout. He’s had only a packet of oatmeal to eat all day, plus some cold-pressed green juice, “with kale and spinach and whatnot.” He spent a long morning wrangling his rambunctious three-year-old twins on his own – their other parent, Harris’ fiance and partner of 10 years, actor and chef David Burtka, is out of town, finalizing their move from Los Angeles. But they’re deeper-set today, joined by a bonus crinkle above his right eyebrow. The three un-Botoxed lines that run across NPH’s ample forehead are valuable acting tools, tributaries to quizzical river: He seems able to furrow each of them independently. Gender Bender: An Oral History of ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ Harris slips into the touristy bistro right next door (“I see you!” a passing dude shouts, sounding crazily accusatory), pulls off his John Varvatos leather jacket and Sunday Somewhere shades, and eases into a wooden chair at a corner table, looking weary, decidedly unsparkly, despite the chipped but glittery purple polish on his longish fingernails. Late on a cool Friday afternoon in early April, he hustles past the Belasco Theatre on West 44th Street in Manhattan, where his own tripartite name blares from the marquee in two-foot-high type, along with a Godzilla-size close-up of his blue eyes, rimmed with sparkly, glam-rock mascara. ![]() Even Neil Patrick Harris can’t always make it look easy.
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