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12 Thoughts Neil Patrick Harris Had During His 'Rolling Stone' Photoshoot
This month's Rolling Stone cover boy is Neil Patrick Harris. And, like any good model hoping to gain a little buzz, he got naked and posed for Terry Richardson, resulting in the au natural photo above. Now, all "Terry Richardson is the Worst" comments aside, the whole thing is quite the departure for our beloved NPH. What with How I Met Your Mother over and done with, and a stint on Broadway in Hedwig and the Angry Inch , the star has a lot of old layers to shed, and a lot riding on the success of this transition out of that warm and cozy CBS world.
Between Broadway, CBS, and the sure-to-be-a-hit Gone Girl coming out later this year, the man has got a lot on his mind. So it got us thinking: what in the world could the multi-hyphenate, perma-presenter/all-around-entertainer be thinking during a shoot like this? So many things — natch — some of which we've imagined for you in the slides below. So take a look and get inside the mind of Doogie Howser, just like your tween self always dreamed!
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Neil's Thoughts (No. 1)
“Someone on the Internet is going to photoshop a box where the hat should be for sure.”
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Neil's Thoughts (No. 2)
“Nothing suits me like a birthday sui—oh god that was lame even for my internal monologue.”
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Neil's Thoughts (No. 3)
“Is it weird that I have ginger brows when no other hair on my body is ginger?”
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Neil's Thoughts (No. 4)
“I hope David took out the trash like he promised.”
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Neil's Thoughts (No. 11)
“You know of all the Stark kids, I’m really rooting for Rickon, you know? Why doesn’t anybody ever worry about Rickon?”
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Neil's Thoughts (No. 6)
“And for my next trick… I’ll make all your Barney Stinson references… DISAPPEAR!”
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Neil's Thoughts (No. 5)
“This Terry Richardson guy gets such a bad rap. He hasn’t asked me to touch his dick once!”
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Neil's Thoughts (No. 7)
“You’ve come a long way, Doogie.”
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Neil's Thoughts (No. 8)
“Gosh I really hope they can photoshop my thigh gap to look natural.”
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Neil's Thoughts (No. 9)
“I wonder if this bow tie as a metaphor for the globalization of deconstructing societal gender norms is too on-the-nose?”
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Neil's Thoughts (No. 10)
♫♬ “Clap along if you feel like a room without a—OH MY GOD MAKE IT STOP.”
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Neil's Thoughts (No. 12)
“They better photoshop out my short-shorts. The world doesn’t need to know I’m a nevernude.”
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