Neil Patrick Harris recently weighed in the topic of whether straight actors should get to play gay characters and vice versa.
In an interview with The Times, Neil Patrick Harris opened up about how he feels about straight characters playing gay, and he’s all for it!
For the unversed, the 47-year-old actor, who is homosexual in real life has played straight and gay characters in his career.
In fact, Neil’s most memorable character of Barney on How I Met Your Mother, was a straight character. In his chat with The Times, the actor said that “there’s something sexy about casting a straight actor to play a gay role.” He added that only if the actor is willing to invest a lot into it.