20-05-2025
Josh Radnor, Cobie Smulders On How I Met Your Mother Sex Scenes
This week, How I Met Your Mother alum Cobie Smulders appeared on the How We Made Your Mother podcast, which is hosted by her ex-costar Josh Radnor and one of the show's co-creators, Craig Thomas.
During the wide-ranging chat, Cobie and Josh — who played Robin and Ted on the long-running sitcom — reflected on what it was like shooting intimate scenes.
'Josh and I had quite a few intimate scenes,' said Cobie. 'And so I would try to, as much as humanly possible, before we would roll, whisper something to Josh that was just extremely inappropriate.'
Cobie explained that she would typically describe the kinds of things that their characters had just done in bed before the scene began when she'd whisper to Josh ahead of shooting. 'I feel like I'm an amazing scene partner and I'm just thinking about the other person and making sure that they're comfortable, making sure that there's a connection there,' she said.
'And so I would just sort of set us up before we actually started the scene in our speaking roles, just with like, 'This is what just transpired between us.' And usually Josh would not be able to say anything and his face would turn that color for those who are watching,' she added, while Craig confirmed that Josh was indeed 'turning beet red.'
Meanwhile, Josh went on to note that their costar Neil Patrick Harris — who played the infamous womanizer Barney Stinson — could also be 'disgusting' when it came to whispering things before shooting scenes. 'Neil has a real ability to be gross,' he shared before adding: 'He is nothing compared to the depravity that Cobie Smulders laid out.'
LOL. You can listen to Cobie's full appearance on the How We Made Your Mother podcast here.
