Neil Patrick Harris

2022 - 7 - 30

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'Uncoupled' features Neil Patrick Harris in a 'Sex and the City ... (CNN)

Different sex, same city in "Uncoupled," original "Sex and the City" producer Darren Star's look at gay life and love in very upper-crust New York, ...

Or to put it in the parlance of these elite zip codes, it's a bit like showing up to a glitzy fashion show in the year-before-last's styles. But it's a thinly written character, alternating between raging about her husband's midlife crisis, bonding with Michael over being alone and acting like the sort of wealthy matron who swears profusely but feigns shock when somebody dares to use an expletive in the lobby. Indeed, times have changed since he was single, which leads to a lot of misread signs and awkward encounters, especially with the few younger chaps that pass through his orbit.

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Neil Patrick Harris is suddenly single in comedy 'Uncoupled' (ABC News)

The eight-episode “Uncoupled,” which debuted Friday, represents a still relatively rare Hollywood commodity: a rom-com with a gay character as the lovable hero ...

“I thought about it a lot when we were filming it, ‘Um, are the kids going to watch this?'” Harris said. They don't want to see my naked butt getting out of the shower in the bathroom. I work out a fair amount and I feel more confident in my own skin than I have before." It's a guy going through the pain of a breakup, and you don't really get to see it that often.” On the flip side, scenes that called for him to flash a goodly amount of skin left him unfazed. “So I think if they were to watch ‘Uncoupled' and see my naked butt on screen, they would be mortified. Harris sees value in a work that is “just a slice of representation without agenda....If one tries too hard to accomplish a specific agenda with art, it’ll be met with both extremes. I don’t need a changing room curtain," he said. “As a gay man myself, I thought that having content that was representational was great on a streaming platform like Netflix,” Harris said. “I’ve been with David for 18 years, and once we started dating, we really just never stopped.” You don't have to be gay to see yourself reflected in these characters because it's so much about the humanity of this experience." “I thought that that was all something that hasn’t necessarily been done before.

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In 'Uncoupled,' Neil Patrick Harris reimagines life as a single gay ... (NBC News)

More than eight years after completing his run as the legendary straight cad Barney Stinson on CBS' “How I Met Your Mother,” Emmy-winning actor Neil Patrick ...

“I was playing a straight guy in ‘Gone Girl,’ but I didn’t butch it up really, because the character that I was playing was kind of weirdly awkward and a little creepy, androgynous psycho [like] Norman Bates … so I didn’t need to be a straight guy in order to play him. “You just want to have as many actor arrows in your quiver,” he said with a smile. “Certainly now, more than ever, people are encouraged to be honest with everyone about who they are, and that takes down different guises to different people,” he said. “Oftentimes, back when you just went on a date with someone, it was very uncomfortable to reveal what turns you on, and that was not a first or second date conversation. The script he read “was contemporary and casual and fun, and yet kind of made me tear up,” Harris told NBC News in a recent video interview. Overnight, Michael has to contend with two nightmares: losing the man he thought was his soulmate and being forced to navigate the digital and generational gap of dating as a newly single gay man in his mid-40s.

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In 'Uncoupled,' Neil Patrick Harris gets dumped, but Carries on (NPR)

After his 17-year relationship ends, a gay NYC real estate agent (Neil Patrick Harris) leans on friends as he navigates hookup culture in this breezy ...

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Neil Patrick Harris and the Uncoupled Cast and Creators Kiss and ... (Rotten Tomatoes)

The series, created by Darren Star and Jeffrey Richman, stars the "How I Met Your Mother" alum as a suddenly single gay man in his 40s as he navigates New ...

“This is a show about about someone who’s been left by the person they thought they were going to basically be with together forever and find themselves having to start over at 50. Star also know that this show is going to bring comparisons to Sex and the City, his hit HBO program about a New York female foursome in their 30s and 40s. But this is a little more layered than that.” But, right away, I think it starts to have different colors attached to him, much like in life.” Michael is also lucky because he has a close support system. But, you know, in my real life, I had to discover the same thing.” But that keeps you in the relationship.” Harris credits this scene to the episode’s writer, Don Roos, and says that it originally went much longer and dealt with other modern-day dating issues like waxing. During a random hook-up with a younger man, Harris’ Michael is disturbed that his paramour doesn’t use condoms. “This is the lives of these characters and it’s what they’re going through,” Star says. Interestingly, though, some of them are much more vanilla than ones in his other shows. And, I think, being able to have a show that doesn’t take itself too seriously and that also is human in its relatability was important.”

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