I feel like I guess a lot of people my age who grew up with him feel. I've watched the show and enjoyed it and I've been a fan of Neil's for a long time. IGN TV: So you were very familiar with the show and the character of Barney? Brady: Oh yeah. And every blue moon, I get very fabulous. IGN TV: Basically, you're playing Barney's mirror image, right? Brady: Yes, who just happens to like guys. "Hey, you know that show, How I Met Your Mother? They want you to play Neil Patrick…" "…Yes!" So at that point it could have been, "They want you to play Neil Patrick Harris's pony," or, "They want you to play his buoyantly happy, gay, black friend," which is what it was, luckily. WAYNE BRADY IGN TV: So what did you think when you heard the part they were offering you on How I Met Your Mother was as Neil Patrick Harris's brother? Wayne Brady: There wasn't any lag time between the agent saying, "You're being offered this" and me saying, "Yes!" No lag time whatsoever. During a couple of these brief breaks, I managed to sit down with both Brady and Harris for exclusive chats with IGN, to discuss what it was like to play these unlikely, but extremely happy and secure, brothers. Brady seemed to be having a great time, as James showed off his outfit, proving, that like his brother, he was always ready to "Suit Up." In between takes, the cast relaxed, with Smulders and Jason Segal playing a bit of "Heart and Soul" on the piano that is part of the main apartment set. Stopping by the Mother set for IGN, I watched Brady shoot his introduction scene, in which Robin (Cobie Smulders) is looking forward to meeting James for the first time, only to be a bit surprised when he doesn't look anything like Barney, to say the least. Barney couldn't be more excited to see his brother again, until he learns a secret James is keeping, that has nothing to do with either his race or sexual preference, both of which Barney could care less about. Or you have the more, like, subtle jokes.The very funny episode has James show up to visit Barney in New York. How we navigate that world where you either have more extreme, overt moments like that. I put that story in the book because it’s about highlighting the reality, the shit we deal with and what gets sent to us constantly, particularly in environments that are predominantly cis and heterosexual. These moments that we often like don’t talk about or we’re supposed to just brush off, when actually it’s very awful. A lot of queer and trans people deal with it incessantly. The “Juno” actor added, “I’ve had some version of that happen many times throughout my life. Page recalled seeing the male actor at the gym a few days later, where he said, “I don’t have a problem with gay people I swear.” You are just afraid of men,” the actor told Page, adding, “I’m going to fuck you to make you realize you aren’t gay.” Page, who came out as a trans man in 2020 after identifying as a lesbian, detailed a verbal assault in 2014 by an unnamed male actor in his memoir, “Pageboy.” As part of a chapter titled “Famous Asshole at Party,” as excerpted by People magazine, Page wrote about being at a birthday party in Los Angeles where an “acquaintance” questioned his sexuality. Elliot Page is pulling back the curtain on homophobia in Hollywood.
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