“ Neil has a real ability to be thoroughgoing . He is nothing compare to the depravity that Cobie Smulders laid out . ”
This week,How I Met Your Motheralum Cobie Smulders appeared on theHow We Made Your Motherpodcast, which is hosted by her ex-costar Josh Radnor and one of the show’s co-creators, Craig Thomas.
During the wide-rangingchat, Cobie and Josh — who played Robin and Ted on the long-running sitcom — reflected on what it was like shooting intimate scenes.
“Josh and I had quite a few intimate scenes,” said Cobie. “And so I would try to, as much as humanly possible, before we would roll, whisper something to Josh that was just extremely inappropriate.”
“ We have something in acting call ' the moment before , ' which is typically used in an audition [ where ] you have to land as soon as they roll … there ’s been a whole biography , so you have to produce this moment before . So I felt , as a dependable scene collaborator , I should lay out what the moment before was . And typically it was what we just did . And commonly it was sexual , ” she apportion , while Josh added , “ There were a portion of post - copulatory scenes , yeah . ”
Cobie explained that she would typically describe the kinds of things that their characters had just done in bed before the scene began when she’d whisper to Josh ahead of shooting. “I feel like I’m an amazing scene partner and I’m just thinking about the other person and making sure that they’re comfortable, making sure that there’s a connection there,” she said.
“And so I would just sort of set us up before we actually started the scene in our speaking roles, just with like, ‘This is what just transpired between us.’ And usually Josh would not be able to say anything and his face would turn that color for those who are watching,” she added, while Craig confirmed that Josh was indeed “turning beet red.”
Cobie reject to share any denotative details of what she ’d whisper to Josh . “ Just think of the worst possible thing , ” she quip .
Meanwhile, Josh went on to note that their costarNeil Patrick Harris— who played the infamous womanizer Barney Stinson — could also be “disgusting” when it came to whispering things before shooting scenes. “Neil has a real ability to be gross,” he shared before adding: “He is nothing compared to the depravity that Cobie Smulders laid out.”
Josh later on total that he was often left speechless by Cobie ’s vulgar remarks . “ She would time it in such a way that she would finish saying [ it ] , she would beat the landing , and they would say ' action , ' and I could n’t speak … They ’re warm memories , but I also was immobilized by Cobie ’s visionary , ” he said .
Interestingly , Craig acknowledge that he — and the otherHIMYMproducers — had dead no mind that this sort of affair was happening on lot .
LOL. You can listen to Cobie’s full appearance on theHow We Made Your Motherpodcast here.
