Neil Patrick Harris: I Knew I Was Gay After Burt Reynolds Kissed Me On the Mouth

Contents:

• IN 'UNUPLED,' NEIL PATRICK HARRIS REIMAG LIFE AS A SGLE GAY MAN N.Y.C.
• NEIL PATRICK HARRIS: 'I REALISED I WAS GAY AFTER KISS OM BURT REYNOLDS'
• NEIL PATRICK HARRIS ONCE OPENED UP ABOUT HIS RELATNSHIPS WH WOMEN BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY
• NEIL PATRICK HARRIS OPENS UP ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY HOLLYWOOD
• NEIL PATRICK HARRIS REALIZED HE WAS GAY WHILE DATG A FAMO WOMAN

IN 'UNUPLED,' NEIL PATRICK HARRIS REIMAG LIFE AS A SGLE GAY MAN N.Y.C.

More than eight years after pletg his n as the legendary straight d Barney Stson on CBS’ “How I Met Your Mother, ” Emmy-wng actor Neil Patrick Harris has returned to the s format Netflix’s “Unupled, ” playg a gay man who is unwillgly thst back to the New York Cy datg scene after beg unceremonly dumped by his partner of 17 years.

Overnight, Michael has to ntend wh two nightmar: losg the man he thought was his soulmate and beg forced to navigate the digal and generatnal gap of datg as a newly sgle gay man his — who rose to fame as a wunrkd doctor on “Doogie Howser, M. ’ story, ” he he grappl wh the grief and nial of beg “unupled, ” Harris’ character, Michael, stggl wh the polics of gay datg today’s society — the transactnal nature of hookups, the unwrten l of etiquette on var jarrg experience of beg thrown to “a whole other world” and forced to learn on one’s feet was somethg that the creative team really wanted to nvey, acrdg to Harris, who likened Michael’s stggl wh adaptg to the ever-changg datg world to his own stggl wh the evolutn of textg.

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS: 'I REALISED I WAS GAY AFTER KISS OM BURT REYNOLDS'

”While Michael ets over the viabily of a middle-aged gay man a datg market maly prised of younger men, Harris said he has grown to embrace agg over time, spe livg a culture and workg an dtry that ntu to value youthful appearanc. “My slong stggle was to jt feel fortable my own body, bee I would be my mid-20s, my late 20s, and I jt still would go to the gym and feel like I was a sophomore high school and everyone was better than me at , and I felt awkward and gawky and didn’t know my posture, ” he said. More than 15 years later, the actor thks “we’re enterg this new world” where the stris onscreen LGBTQ reprentatn mean “there’s ls fear of negative repercsns for beg proud and open and hont about who you want to make out wh” — to the pot that he is now able to lead his own Netflix show as, and about, an openly gay man.

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS ONCE OPENED UP ABOUT HIS RELATNSHIPS WH WOMEN BEFORE COMG OUT AS GAY

”But Harris utned that, at the end of the day, actors are supposed to act, explag that he choos to look beyond the labels of gay or straight when breakg down his own characters. “Straight people are all very different, and gay people are all very different. “And if I was playg an over-the-top flight attendant on a broad edy, then I’d probably swg to a very different terpretatn — not of gay vers straight, but of what the wrers and the directors were hopg for.

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS OPENS UP ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY HOLLYWOOD

He n most recently be seen alongsi Ben Affleck new release Gone Girl (2014) his brand new memoir, Choose Your Own Autobgraphy, Harris, who is now a married father-of-two wh David Burtka, scrib the journey of acceptance for both him and his loved reported by the Daily Mail, the book grappl wh the years Harris spent g to terms wh his sexualy, durg which he told people he was bisexual before revealg his is gay. “After a long ternal journey, you now embrace beg gay, regnisg as a wonrful and tegrally important ponent part of the totaly that is you, ” he wr. Unfortable and, will ultimately turn out, gay.

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS REALIZED HE WAS GAY WHILE DATG A FAMO WOMAN

Burt Reynolds' kiss mak you gay. ”Harris me out 2006, nfirmg a statement: “I am happy to dispel any mours or misnceptns and am que proud to say that I am a very ntent gay man livg my life to the fullt and feel most fortunate to be workg wh wonrful people the bs I love. The two beme parents to tws Gion and Harper September, he was one of a number of people featured an article entled 'gay list of shame' by Arabic webse Middle Eastern Broadstg Center (MBC), for which me unr fire and was forced to apologise.

Followg the 2011 lg that legalized gay marriage New York, the uple announced their engagement, and eventually wed a private ceremony Italy 2014.