FROM GAY SEX SCENES TO PARENTHOOD, NEIL PATRICK HARRIS IS COMFORTABLE IN HIS SKIN AND KEEPING THE AUDIENCE GUESSING
Neil Patrick Harris woke up at 6 a.m. the day of his conversation with Out. No, it wasn’t for the interview. The actor and his husband, David Burtka, roused their 11-year-old twins, Gideon and Harper, for a shower and breakfast. Then he drove them to school. On the call, Harris ticks off an expected afternoon itinerary that includes an appointment with the dermatologist, picking up the kids, a homework session, and packing for a family trip.
“Our life — our singular life, David and my life — is dedicated almost uniformly to our family and being parents,” explains the 48-year-old actor, whose partner of 18 years has been sober for about five. “We don’t even really go to bars and stuff. We hang out with our family. We prioritize that because we love spending time with each other. The whole dating world, much less Grindr world, is very, very out of our orbit.”
Such was the orbit of Michael, the lead character Harris embodies on Netflix’s , which drops July 29. Although Michael is not a parent — nor an actor, he’s a real estate agent for the well-to-do on the show created by Darren Star and Jeffrey Richman — he shared a
