Neil Patrick Harris got in character for “Uncoupled” in the horniest way possible
Netflix’s upcoming middle-aged gay dating series Uncoupled is nearly upon us. And ahead of the July 29 premiere, star Neil Patrick Harris spoke with Them about LGBTQ+ representation, ageism, and scouring the internet for dick pics.Uncoupled is created and produced by Sex and the City’s Darren Star and Fraiser’s Jeffrey Richman.
The series follows Harris as he is suddenly thrust into the modern dating world after his partner of almost twenty years leaves him.The show is an exploration of the fact that queer dating does indeed occur after your thirties, the kind of story not often centered onscreen. “It speaks to a celebration of how far we’ve come,” said Harris. “It’s interesting to me to be telling a gay breakup story and have it feel like nothing within it seems salacious or groundbreaking.
I love that we’ve been telling gay stories for long enough that a gay divorce or generational dating show exists at all.”Along with this premise comes tons of comedy about navigating app culture, including the etiquette surrounding dick pics.
Harris, who has been partnered since around the mid-2000s, had to get up to speed on the subtle art of phallus photography himself. “For me, [it was] none of this,” he explained. “It was AOL chat rooms in the ’90s, dude — in the ’90s.
