If there’s one possible secondary character who brought down the show’s protagonist, it’s Barney Stinson in “How I Met Your Mother.” The sequence of love stories of Ted Mossby (Josh Rednor) before finding the children’s mother, over the seasons, is less interesting than Barney’s gags and his cult lines, such as “It will be a legend … wait … Dari!”, “Change!” Or “წვეInvitation accepted”.
But in hindsight, we realize that Barney was not a perfect character and that he was problematic in many ways, including his toxic and feminine behavior toward women with jokes and lines that really bothered him with age. And that’s even his translator Neil Patrick Harris says that.
Speaking on the other side of the Atlantic, the more modern and less-troubled spin-off How I Met Your Father, now available on Disney + in France, the British actor took the opportunity to put spirit into his newsletter. Wondercade. In one issue of this newsletter, Neil Patrick Harris spoke with Hillary Duff, who plays the heroine Sophie in the spin-off series “How I Met My Dad,” about Barney’s possible cameo in this spin-off.
And it is clear to him that Barney has nothing to do with it: “I was nervous about coming to your show. Barney’s nonsense and illusions of grandeur will certainly put everyone in trouble. So if he did not change his path or join the monastery, I’m not sure it ‘s in anyone’ s interest.”
Answer by Hillary Duff, quoted by PeopleJoins Neil Patrick Harris’s opinion as he thinks Barney will have no place in the post # MeToo world: “I do not know what you think about it, but I’m sure Barney will go to jail in 2022.” He also specifies that it’s really because “We now live in a world where women have more power than Barney created women.
Indeed, one of the characters in “How I Met Your Father” borrowed a few codes from Barney so as not to be toxic or problematic, and this is Valentina, played by France Rice. There is no role book, brocade or smoke charts to make her conquests for this female character in the spin-off available at Disney + in France.
However, other characters from the original series appeared in the movie “How I Met Your Father”, for example, Kobe Smullers, Robin’s translator! If the writers decide to bring in Barney, make fun of him in the post-#MeToo world, or some better version, Neil Patrick Harris might reconsider. How I Met Your Father has been updated for the second season, anything is possible.
Source: allocine
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