To Josh Radnor, suiting up to rewatch How I Met Your Mother has been more than just a trip down memory lane.
On a new episode of the Dinner’s on Me podcast, Radnor told Jesse Tyler Ferguson, “It’s been quite healing for me,” noting that he was particularly hard on himself during the early seasons of How I Met Your Mother. “I found it hard to watch myself, and now I’m watching it. Now I’m watching it with some distance and some like more tenderness and compassion for myself. And I’m like, ‘You were doing a really good job. You were doing a really good job in a really hard role.’”
Looking at the show “more compassionately” has helped him to stop feeling sad and start feeling awesome about his sitcom’s enduring popularity. “I’ve just been like, ‘Oh, I get why people love this show. I get why they’re connected to my character,’” Radnor continued. “Like I’ve been able to look at it much more compassionately and kind of almost like, I love this thing.”
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It took Radnor 20 years to understand what How I Met Your Mother fans have known since 2005, but it’s nice that he finally got there. As Ted Mosby once famously said, “You can ask the universe for signs all you want, but ultimately we’ll only see what we want to see — when we’re ready to see it.”
