I think [this] should really happen.'"
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Josh Radnoris sick of atoning for Ted Mosby’s sins.
This is my job.'"
Josh Radnor at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations ‘All Happy Families’ event on Sept. 16, 2024 in New York City.Credit:Jamie McCarthy/Getty
“This is my job to be truthful and bring this stuff to life,” he said.
“And it wasn’t my job to hijack the script and say, ‘You know what?
I think [this] should really happen.'”
Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), Robin (Cobie Smulders), Ted (Josh Radnor), Lily (Alyson Hannigan), and Marshall (Jason Segel) on ‘How I Met Your Mother’.Cliff Lipson/CBS
“We love writing scripts.
We didn’t think we’d be particularly goodHow I Met Your Motherwriters.
It came from the minds of Craig [Thomas] and Carter [Bays] and the writing staff.
It was a very singular world that had its own rules and its own logic.
And we were just inside that, but we weren’t the puppet masters.”
I was not there as a writer.
I was there to be the actor, and I had my actor hat on.
But I think another kind of subtle subterranean part of me was learning and observing."
The actor also explained why the show left very little room for improvisation.
Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby in the ‘How I Met Your Mother’ finale in 2014.Ron P. Jaffe/Fox
“There’s four cameras going.
“There’s just so many moving parts and pieces.
However, there were occasionally moments when actors had the freedom to shake things up.
And you could negotiate it.”
Listen to the full episode ofHow We Made Your Motherabove.
