“I almost always say no to these roles”

Josh Radnor plays Ted Mosby In How I Met Your Mother and thus the main role in one of the most successful sitcoms that the world has ever seen. Of course, this does not go past an actor without a trace and Josh Radnor also had a very specific concernafter the filming ended.

Josh Radnor didn’t want to play the same role again as in How I Met Your Mother

Ten years ago, the last episode How I Met Your Mother was on TV for the first time. After that, lead actor Josh Radnor wanted to do something completely different and not be set to this one type. That’s why he has himself even imposed a kind of golden ruleto focus on completely different topics.

The actor and director recently explained to People that he had after the Himym final “long time“Consciously decided to play other roles that Nothing with the romantic city single in search of love to do have:

In a way, I always let all things run through a kind of how i met your mother algorithm, with regard to whether it is far enough away from the sound of the show. I actually searched for roles that really just felt different.

His first role according to How I Met Your Mother was a Broadway piece about Islamophobia in which Josh Radnor one morally questionable character plays. Then came a PBS show called Mercy Street, in which he embodies a morphine-dependent surgeon in the civil war.

So I really searched for roles who are not loving guys in New York City looking for wives. That was something I didn’t want to do. Sometimes I still get roles that I in her DNA can feel that it is a little too close And then I don’t play these roles. I almost always say no to these roles.

But that should change: In the meantime, he is almost sorry to lie in the clinch with his own past. That is why he is now deliberately devoting himself to his How I Met Your Mother past And publishes a Himym Rewatch Podcast together with the co-creator of the series, Craig Thomas.

It is tiring to run away from such a large part of your self and your career.

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That is why he believes that this podcast could take one Be able to close peace And no longer have to defend yourself so much against your own past, but rather to deal with her constructively. He is looking forward to it and suspects that the matter could even be very helpful.

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