Neil Patrick Harris is currently Hedwig in the Broadway musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." Apparently the "How I Met Your Mother" actor is very immersed in his character.
Harris yelled at a Hedwig fan, "I'm doing something up here, motherf****r!" at an April 19 performance, when the fan yelled out "I love you, Neil!" while the actor was on stage as Hedwig, according to the New York Post's Page Six.
The Post reported that the audience loved it, but some on Twitter were quick to criticize. Harris has had to clarify on his Twitter account that he wasn't swearing at the fan but rather he was playing his part as Hedwig.
"Take a breath," Harris told an angered observer who criticizedthe actor for his "outburst." "I'm playing a character. Who is harsh. That's the show. That's Hedwig."
"When the fan initially yelled, 'I love you, Neil,' Harris initially responded, 'Who's Neil? I'm not Neil.' He then looked over at Yitzhak (portrayed by Lena Hall) and said, 'Are you Neil? You better not be Neil,' followed by Hedwig then offering the quote in question. It was all done in good fun, and fully in the context of the show."
Neil Patrick Harris revealed that he had been offered David Letterman's job as the host of The Late Show, but he turned it down.
"I don't have any interest in doing 'monologue, commercial, sketch, guest, guest musical act, goodnight,'" the "Hedwig" actor said on The Howard Stern Show.
Neil also turned down the hosting position on Craig Ferguson's The Late Late Show. He said, "It's still nightly. You're still coming up with the same content and now you're just getting bitter that no one's watching it."
"I was flattered that I was kind of being considered," he added. "How exciting to be considered for something like that."
Harris said that he would be interested in doing a variety show if aired once a week instead of nightly. "I think if it's weekly and people really want to see it - and you trust that there's a lot of really great sh-t on there - then you're going to get the guests to want to come on your thing," he said. "A weekly thing, you'd have more time to prep for stuff. You could do pre-taped stuff that would be really exciting, you could flesh it out a little bit more and have more acts."
