Throwback Thursday: How I tripped and fell on Neil Patrick Harris

Oh Neil...
How beautiful, how witty, how talented and how humorous are you...
You have shown strength, confidence and self respect these past few years since your coming out and, as a big fan, I cannot be more proud than I am today.

Oh Neil...
I'd like to say that I'm sorry to have fallen, and literally, right between your legs on the set of Joan of Arc...
...but heck, yah right, pfffffft, I am not sorry one bit.

Embarrassed?  Absolutely!
Can't believe I made such a fool out of myself...








Damn me!
But then damn me and my muddy clunky winter boots and cobble stoned cathedral ground for allowing me to....I mean....making me trip and fall into your arms.
And you!  You were so kind! So sweet as to catch me ever so gently and say, "you okey?"
A gentleman, indeed.
And how appropriately dressed were you?
You in your mighty king Charles the VII costume so regal and magnificent...
studying your lines in a dusty small room inside a grand cathedral,
sitting by a window, and light of day coming in softly.

Hesitated to approach, but as your makeup artist I had no choice but to enter into your zone.
"May I do your touch up, Neil? ", I asked
You nodded as you were repeating your lines.

And then...right there..., in a blink of an eye, found myelf inside your arms.

"What the?..."

...were definitely my first words that crossed my mind the moment I tripped on a cobblestone.
What seemed so quick and sudden to others , was actually nothing but a terrible slow motioned b-rated film starring me.
Seeing my entire body, muddy, heavy and gross from working outside most of these dreadful shoot,  fall so inelegantly in direction of you...
Immediately felt hot right in my face, and hotter as I fell further into your arms
OmgOmgOmg










"I'm so sorry!", "Oh my god", "I'm so sorry!", repeatedly overwhelming him with my apologies.
And as you kept your cool, you simply considered my well being over anything.
As other crew members and actors watched over what had happened,obviously laughed out loud and mockingly congratulated me for doing what I did to get his attention...
What? No! I fell! I swear! I tripped!
"Yah, okey there" giggle giggle giggle
Noooooo!
But yah, I was smiling too so that didn't help, I guess.




So I had the honour of doing his makeup and wig application for the television miniseries of Joan of Arc shot in 1999 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
3 months and a half of gruesome, most brutal, freezing and muddy, shooting outside 95% of the time.  Knee deep into the mud and snow and blowing wind, icy ground and runny nose... it was the most amazing experience ever, heck yah!

I got to meet amazing actors and one being Neil Patrick Harris.
He was only there for just few days.
He was Neil....from Doogie Howser and that was all anyone knew of him at the time.
He hadn't come out, nor had he had any successful film and television like Smurfs and How I Met Your Mother under his belt...and yet, I remember feeling so excited to meet him and to work with him.
Seeing him now with his amazing success, not only from all the film and television work, but his success as a human being appreciating life as a proud gay person, married to his love with two beautiful children, he exudes confidence, positivity, self respect and love of life.  He sings, he dances, he is witty, smart, clever and so funny....mind you, I can go on and on!
I love him as a person. He is so inspirational. He is glowing!

So yah, my whole event of me literally falling on him...
Can't deny it, it puts a smile on my face, ear to ear. And I can proudly say that, all awkwardness and embarrassment put aside, it is one of my greatest memories of all time.

xo



...Okey, so...
Seriously, look at him
This was taken in 1999...
Is it just me who thinks this, 
but he hasn't changed one bit!?!?!?!