Neil Patrick Harris Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters | GQ

essential. The warrior isn't too smart, but you can blow off a limb and still have 86 combat effectiveness. Here's a tip, target the nerve stem and get it down for good. Would you like to know more in the mid-90s, when you were an actor on television you were not welcome in the world of cinema and, in turn, if you were an actor in film, you were not really welcome in the world of television, they were very beasts separated, so having done a TV show at a relatively young age, I kept trying to be in movies, but I was just a TV person, which is fine, you know, you hope you can do a Sally Field and just stay long enough for the rules to change, but I auditioned from time to time and got a movie in a part of a Paul Verhoeven movie called Starship Troopers, which was cool because it was one of the first CG movies with giant CG errors.

We are in this for the species, boys and girls, they are simple numbers, they have more and every day. I have to make decisions that send hundreds of people like you to their deaths. That's what mobile infantry is for. I hope you're ready for more. We'll pee again to capture that brain. It was fun. I was kind of a smart person. He had clairvoyance, he could know what people were thinking instead of being one of the soldiers and he could shoot guns and do the cool scenes. They just took me away and then I came back wearing a remarkably militaristic, stomping black leather trench coat and I sort of said, "It's all good, carry on," which was fun in a way because I didn't have to be on set all the time wearing this like uniforms and helmets, and you know, trying to avoid Jake Busey's errant shooting pattern, but in turn, everyone else had to go with Captain Dye on training missions and bond as this group and I showed up after that everyone was exhausted for two weeks of filming in Wyoming and I would touch a bug and say it's scared, it's scared, it's scared, that would be my day and I'd be gone, so I love it, it still holds that movie up pretty well, surprisingly yeah you look at cgi and a lot of movies that were filmed after that, it still looks a lot like a fake entity, but Phil Tippett was the name of The Man Who Made All Those Bugs and he did a really excellent job because the ones in that movie are still very preserved. good.

Amy, I'm so happy you're here and I don't want you to worry for a moment. There are cameras everywhere, the outside, along the grounds, the entrance, anyone caught coming or going will be recorded. You are more than safe and I won't let you escape again. I'm a big fan of David Fincher, the game, which is by Michael Douglas. The movie Sean Penn was in is one of my favorite movies of all time. I'm a little obsessed with escape rooms and immersive theater and the notion that the content doesn't need to be on a screen or even on stage, so this movie delving into that as an idea, I had the opportunity to meet david fincher to see maybe be in a movie, that's all I knew and it wasn't an audition, it was just going to lunch with the guy, which was terrifying, it's worse than auditioning because at least in the audition you're like You come prepared with something, but I'm thinking, what am I supposed to do, I talk too much, I like to research and then show him how much I know about him, that feels stalkerish.

Do I wait and let him come to me and tell me about the role and act like a distant actor? I say, yeah, maybe I'll take a look at the script. No, it seems like a stupid idea and we're just getting started. We talked and talked all the time about nonsense, good and great things about crosswords and scripts, and we had a lot of similarities. I think a lot of people are afraid of David Fincher because he's demanding, he does 40 or 50 takes, but somehow I did it. I laugh a little and I'm in love with him.

I had never felt so much with a director like him that I was in the hands of a sculptor. I felt like I would take a photo and spend so much time lighting it and then He would take the same amount of time with the actors and we would just chisel it so that all the things that I would do, he would say, "Stop doing that stuff with your eyes, just do it again, not because I did something with my eyes." but because of 17 things and then when the shot 30 34 37 came around you, you're simplified, you sort of distilled all the strange isms that you practice in the bathroom mirror and then you get there and you recover, you really do.

He felt very sincere, so it was fun to play super subtle in that world. He was also playing someone who you weren't sure of his intentions, playing something very simple when you don't know if he's telling the truth or deception, it's fun. and then they cut my throat in the middle of orgasm it was also funny who knew it uncoupled uncoupled i played michael who is in a long term monogamous relationship of 17 years with his boyfriend colin and on colin's 50th birthday michael is throwing him a party , a big surprise party and as they're about to open the door, colin says he's going to let him and then the door opens and everyone is shocked and they have to deal with this party where everyone has no idea that that just happened, michael and They just got punched in the gut with the news that he doesn't understand and the whole show is kind of a breakup show, like having to figure out what happened, but also now what happens what happened what happens now I'm 47 I've just Been with a guy since before dating apps and now I'm in New York City, I'm a real estate agent, handsome but old, you know what I'm saying and I have to date people on grindr, I don't know what that means , hey, let me pick a photo, um, how about this? one we just took is our company's ad that crops out suzanne sorry honey you're a little ratty around the eyes suzanne looks great although she should crop you out and put it on her profile that's why you don't have any friends so that's the show that it was transformative in a very strange way because I'm in an 18-year relationship with someone who thankfully hasn't broken up with me, but like if my online dating were chat rooms, you'd be in a little thing with 14 other names. and then you would clumsily type sup and then that would appear and then you would just wait for a direct message that said you know how to choose and I would go to all the selections of attractive guys that I had and send it to him. that one they would send me another pick, I figured it wasn't them, I was probably talking to a 95 year old woman in Kansas, but her pick was like a stud and then we'd like to chat about who was dating me.

It's been a long time, so I don't know anything about this stuff, so it was fun to play someone who didn't know either and I got to live vicariously through my character Michael, I mean, I feel like I should mark this moment with something new, something which I haven't done before, isn't this something you haven't done before? I guess so, and I'm in a state of undress for a long time because you're watching me having sex with a handsome stranger. people we don't really connect with, but yeah, it's fun, it's strangely moving. I think what Darren Starr does really well and has done through sex in the city and young people and Emily in Paris in his own way are intense situations that are comedic and It's honest that everyone can join in, so although this It's a unique story that I just told, it's a breakup story that is ridiculous in many moments and it's also very sincere, there are some really sad, tender moments that happen in the breakup and I.

I think defining the breakup in both shades was a smart decision because in life, when you break up, you cry over the weirdest things but you also act ridiculous in certain ways, it's not just a sad sight, but it's also not just stupid , funny, stupid show is everything and my ass, so I mean, if that's not going to sell it, I don't know what the sad stain of nonsense is, you see the three of us, the trifecta, we act to play the parts, it's all transformation, whether big bully. "everything or if it's really a nuance, everything is transformative.

I look for concerts like a new bucket list, things I haven't done before, that says I'm getting a little tired, I haven't hosted the Tony Awards since I did ". that at radio city music hall because I thought it was so much fun and it was so good I don't want to try to top it but you can't really top it not that it's unattainable but it's like that shouldn't be your goal I don't want to keep trying to reinvent myself wheel I think my future will be more directed towards directing because as much fun as it is to be an exciting paint color on a palette when Lana Wachowski is the painter and she's on Load Your Color, it's exquisite and it's so much fun to be a part of. , but I think I'm eager to start painting.