How I Met Your Mother's Josh Radnor confirmed the sitcom's cast\u2014including Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Segel and Cobie Smolders\u2014is "not even a little bit" close any more 12 years after the show ended.<\/p>\n
This is how a cast meets\u2014then drifts apart, according to Josh Radnor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The How I Met Your Mother alum revealed he and his former costars\u2014including Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Segel, Alyson Hannigan and Cobie Smolders\u2014are "not even a little bit" close any more over 12 years after the beloved sitcom's series finale aired.<\/p>\n
"I don't mean that in any dramatic way," Radnor noted during the latest episode of the Half the Picture podcast, adding, "I have love for all these people."<\/p>\n
But even after working together day and night for nine seasons from 2005 to 2014, the actors no longer keep in touch on a regular basis.<\/p>\n
"It\u2019s like college where you have this very intense time together and you can't imagine not seeing each other every day because you've seen each other every day for so long," Radnor explained. "And then it just disperses and you just go out and live your life."<\/p>\n
Of course, Radnor and his castmates have crossed paths in recent years.<\/p>\n
The 52-year-old recounted seeing last Hannigan at his 2024 wedding to wife Jordana Jacobs and doing joint podcast appearances with both Harris and Smolders on various occasions.<\/p>\n
"Jason and I send each other texts every once and a while that reminds us of something funny on set," Radnor noted, "but I haven't seen him in a really long time."<\/p>\n
Which is understandable given all the HIMYM stars have gone on to many other subsequent TV and film projects.<\/p>\n
"People really want to believe that me and Neil and Jason are like hitting bars in New York City together," Radnor said. "They really want to believe that. And it's a little more like family than friends where you don't get to choose your family."<\/p>\n
"We were cast," he continued, "we didn't choose each other. And family dynamics come out to play when you're in an environment like that for so long. But you also have love that is quite deep and rich and probably everlasting."<\/p>\n
Radnor, who portrayed character Ted Mosby, also reflected on how he wasn't prepared to become a household name so quickly amid the show's instant success with audiences.<\/p>\n
"It was destabilizing to my sense of self to lose anonymity," he confessed, "to be so visible, to have people both love you and not like you, frankly. I didn't want to be overly associated with it because I thought it was the end of my acting life."<\/p>\n
And it majorly affected the trajectory of his career.<\/p>\n