Neil Patrick Harris Bares It All On ‘Rolling Stone’ Cover
Neil Patrick Harris isn’t afraid to show a little skin.
The actor appears on the cover of the latest issue of Rolling Stone, wearing just a bowtie and a strategically placed hat… and nothing else. Inside, Neil opens up about his acting work, but it’s the nude cover that’s getting all the attention.
This is nothing new for Rolling Stone. A few weeks ago the magazine featured actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus naked on the cover, with the United States Constitution etched onto her back (along with a pretty big factual error).
In this issue, Neil Patrick Harris talks about his work and his decision to come out as gay.
“Some actors don’t get hired because you can’t look into their soul and see what they’re like, because they’re kept guarded,” he said. “Once all the cards were on the table, I got more opportunities than ever.”
Harris is currently taking a break from Hollywood and moving his acting work a bit east, playing the title character in the Broadway play Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
It was actually a role that Neil’s fiance David Burtka said he doubted at first.
“I didn’t think he could pull of the femininity [of the role],” Burtka said in the article. “This is such a stretch for him.”
But as Entertainment Weekly noted, Neil Patrick Harris seemed to do a good enough job, earning himself a Tony nomination for the role.
Why hello there, mister. NPH is naked. Yep. Naked on the cover of Rolling Stone: http://t.co/batgux8IW6 pic.twitter.com/0fvdC5PXvp
— Logo TV (@LogoTV) May 8, 2014
Neil Patrick Harris just finished up another longtime role with the series conclusion of How I Met Your Mother. Despite the controversial ending, Harris told David Letterman that he is a “big fan” of the finale:
“It wasn’t necessarily the happy ending that people were expecting. But Carter [Bays] and Craig [Thomas], who were once writers on your show and the executive producers and creators, knew this ending years ago and had played towards that. And I was a big proponent of it and a big fan of it.”
The Rolling Stone issue with a nude Neil Patrick Harris on the cover hits newsstands Friday.
