Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay

Neil Patrick Harris: Blurring the Lines in Harold & Kumar

• Apr 24, 2008 10:09 PM ET
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What would be a Harold Kumar movie without Doogie Howser MD aka Neil Patrick Harris aka NPH We last saw Harris playing his alter-ego in Harold Kumar Go to White Castle hitchhiking high on ecstasy and heartily engaged in the joke on himself and his child stardomFour years later Harris days as Doogie and his TV medical career is a distant memory supplanted by his renewed stardom as Barney in How I Met Your Mother in addition to his various guest roles With his increased fame and high public profile Harris self-parody in the new installment Harold Kumar 2 Escape from Guantanamo Bay is even more outrageous As Guantanamo Bay makes its debut Friday Harris offered some insights into his approach to Kumar and its relationship to his careerIn the new film Harris is still the same wild drug-loving womanizing bad-boy but this time he finds himself in situations that include a check point with Rob Corddry in which Harris mushroom-addl read more

John Cho Faces More Than Fandom with Harold and Sulu

• Apr 11, 2008 09:07 PM ET
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In the second installment of his latest film Harold Kumar 2 Escape from Guantanamo Bay John Cho reprises his character as the straitlaced-but-lovable Harold The film reprises the stoner duo in yet another adventure in which Harold and Kumar Kal Penn are on the lam and encounter everything from the KKK to a Texas whorehouse as they flee from the evil pursuit of a government official played by Rob Corddry Theres no shortage of commentary on race and politics in America teen humor and gags not to mention the requisite appearance of Neil Patrick Harris playing of course Neil Patrick HarrisAs the cult-fave stoner flick gets a redux Cho is already feeling the heat of the spotlight for his next role as Sulu in the upcoming Star Trek film In a recent interview Cho described how hes reacting to all the fandom saying Im discovering how much of a basic building block of American citizenship it is he said Everyone knows something about Star T read more