Neil Patrick Harris' Role In 'Uncoupled' Was 'Cathartic'

Neil Patrick Harris discussed what it was like to play his latest role in Uncoupled, which had some commonalities with his own life.

The 49-year-old actor, who plays a man stunned when his longtime boyfriend moves out, was asked if this role was just another character. “No, it felt very close to the vest in weird ways because I was having to do scenes where I was talking about, you know, my long-term partner, boyfriend, leaving me and you know, that’s not part of my story, but it could happen, right?” he told SiriusXM’s Jess Cagle.

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“I had to sort of play like a weird version of what life would be like, but I’m grateful that I did because the emotional stuff, the fragility of it, came, as I’m sure you can understand, kind of remarkably easy because it was an easy hypothetical and then I kind of got to process through it. Like I got to, in a cathartic way, live out the emotions of an event that didn’t happen in my life, but like is a possibility in its own way,” Neil said.

Neil Patrick Harris recently celebrated the release of Uncoupled with husband David Burtka. Watch the trailer for Uncoupled, which is streaming now on Netflix.