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How I Met Your Mother
As How I Met Your Mother wraps up a few post-strike episodes for its third season, there is more than just the title mystery at work. A recent episode introduced a saboteur thwarting Barney's game with the ladies. Actor Neil Patrick Harris has no clues to help Barney or his fans.
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"They have a couple ideas for the saboteur but I think they're waiting to see on some casting stuff, whether that's worth mining again or whether it's nice to just leave it as sort of a secret we won't know for a while," said Harris. "I don't think at this point with only four episodes left of season three and an unsure question mark whether we're going to have a fourth season, if it's going to play into that final four in a big way."
Even the season finale is a mystery to Harris. "I'm hearing rumblings of sort of a dramatic twist at the end but they keep us pretty clear of what happens, not because they worry about us spoiling anything but they change their ideas all the time up until the very last minute. So they don't want to tell us, 'Oh, you're going to love what happens next week' and then the studio nixed it and they have to come, 'That awesome thing we told you about? You're not going to get to do it.'"
The recent Doogie Howser spoof that wrapped up the saboteur episode was totally fine by the former child star. "Yeah, and Carter and Craig both called me before they released it. They said, 'We have a pitch for you for the tag. What do you think of it?' And I thought it was hilarious. It was time."
Harris came out right when How I Met Your Mother began, and has overcome the hurdle that keeps many actors closeted. "I think it's a good place that we live in and the time that we live in now that people are sort of nonplussed about the whole thing. Most importantly, CBS and Fox and Carter and Craig didn't even bat an eye. They didn't make him more of a ladies man to sort of counterbalance the rumors or stories. They didn't shy away from anything. They just sort of kept writing Barney as Barney. And they knew all about me and my boyfriends from the pilot on, so there was no real scrutiny until the bloggers started in. I wasn't keeping anything from anyone there so it was all business as usual for us. It's nice to know that people heard the information, kind of shrugged about it and then kept watching the show. I don't play him any differently than I exist as myself so I'm not a crazy different person when I'm at home than I am on set. I just get to say crazier things."
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