There's a whole subplot surrounding Neil Patrick Harris and his partner, David Burtka, only pretending to be gay publicly so Neil can use that as a way to meet women. Whose idea was that? Jon Hurwitz: That was our idea and we presented it to him before we wrote it. We got together for dinner with him and he got into it and added his thoughts -- and then we wrote it. What were his thoughts? Hayden Schlossberg: He just thought it was really funny. Dating back to that very first 'Harold & Kumar,' we've been playing with his public persona. And, at the time that we wrote that movie, we were unaware that he was gay. So, we were just playing off of his persona as Doogie Howser, because that's what he was most known for. We thought it would be funny if the guy who played Doogie Howser was this sort of tail-chasing, drug-abusing, insane man. When we did the second movie, he was out to the world, but the second movie took place the day after the first movie. This time around, we're starting from the present day. Neil is no longer just known as the Neil from 'Doogie Howser.' He's the guy on 'How I Met Your Mother' and he's hosting awards shows -- and happens to be known for being a gay man. It really came from a place of explaining it from the 'Harold & Kumar' universe. We know him, we've seen him in these movies, and we know he's straight, so why the gay thing? And that's where we came up with the idea of him utilizing the gay image to lure women into a false sense of security so he can basically try to rape them. Hurwitz: The ideas that Neil contributed, a lot of them involved David Burtka in the movie. So we also know that he's gay, but that he's with David now and has twins. Schlossberg: Once we did that first pass with David in the film, Neil had some fun ideas on how we could expand upon it and play with their relationship in a way that would be fun and surprising. Like you've mentioned, he's in a committed relationship and has kids now. I imagine this is a topic he takes quite seriously. Was there any hesitation that he might not find this quite as funny as you guys did? Hurwitz: After that first movie, we just all have a natural kinship. Neil is a really smart guy and a really normal guy... and he's really funny. We knew that we would have to ask him about it, but we would have been really shocked if Neil didn't find it funny. Schlossberg: Not only does he get it, he wants it to be as outrageous as possible. We're really not afraid him having him do anything. In this movie, he kinda tries to rape somebody. And that's usually a very dark, twisted, not-funny thing. It's really only funny because it's Neil Patrick Harris doing it. You see he has a fearlessness, just like we do. source
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