Josh Radnor explains why the HIMYM cast grew apart despite sharing such a close friendship on screen.
Interviewer: “Are you guys still as close as you were?”
Josh Radnor: “No. Not even a little bit.”
“I don’t mean that in any dramatic way.”
“It’s like college where you have… pic.twitter.com/YxdmKM0hLd
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How I Met Your Mother was a job and that job is over
[“Are you guys still as close as you were?”]
“No. Not even a little bit. I don’t mean that in any dramatic way.”
“It’s like college where you have this very intense time together and you think you’re going to be… you can’t imagine not seeing each other every day. And then it just disperses and you just go out and live your life.”
“People really want to believe that, like, me and Neil and Jason are like hitting bars in New York City together.”
“It’s a little more like family than friends in that you don’t get to choose your family.”
“We were cast. We didn’t choose each other.”
“You also have love that is quite deep and rich and probably everlasting. “But it’s not an active love. Acting is a lot of like little love affairs that you have and then you move on.”
