Josh Radnor is opening up about where he stands with the rest of the cast of How I Met Your Mother, 12 years after the series completed a nine-season run.
The CBS sitcom followed Radnor’s Ted Mosby and his group of friends in New York City as he recounts to his children the events that led to him meeting their mother.
Despite the ensemble cast portraying a close-knit friendship group on camera, it seems the former co-stars have not been in touch much off camera.
“No,” Radnor said on the Half the Picture podcast when asked if he was still close with his HIMYM co-stars. “Not even a little bit.”
He added, “I don’t mean that in any dramatic way. It’s just… We had Neil [Patrick Harris] on the podcast, and he and I had a really interesting conversation about some of the tension we had on set that was fascinating and kind of healing.”
Radnor is referring to a How I Met Your Mother rewatch podcast he co-hosts alongside series co-creator Craig Thomas. Harris was a guest on one episode earlier this year.
The actor also noted that he and Jason Segel “send each other texts every once in a while when something reminds us of something funny on set,” adding, “But I haven’t seen him in a really long time.”
In reference to Cobie Smulders, Radnor said that she’s been on the podcast several times and he’s “seen her mostly on Zoom.”
Radnor said that the last time he saw his co-star Alyson Hannigan was at his wedding at the beginning of 2024.
“I have love for all these people,” he said. “It’s like college where you have this very intense time together, and you think you’re going to be — you can’t imagine not seeing each other every day because you’ve seen each other every day for so long. And then it just disperses, and you just go out and live your life.”
“I think that there’s a yearning, especially when a show is so centered around friendship — people really want to believe that me and Neil and Jason are hitting bars in New York City together. They really want to believe that,” Radnor continued. “I think it’s a little more like family than friends in that you don’t get to choose your family. We were cast. 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, but it’s not an active love. Acting is like love affairs that you have, and then you move on.”
Watch Radnor’s full interview in the video below.
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