Neil Patrick Harrisis taking a break from his A-list acting career to spend more time with his kids — and sort through his mail.
“My upcoming project is not working. It’s gleefully not working,” he joked to PEOPLE Tuesday evening at the live-streamed improv show he hosted at Caroline’s on Broadway in N.Y.C., promoting his new collaboration withJif Power Ups.
On stage, Harris spoke of his own issues with getting his kids to eat. “My son decided he only wanted sprinkles,” he said of twins Gideon Scott and Harper Grace, 7½, whom he told PEOPLE are “starting to read and write” as they make their way toward the second grade.
“We went back and forth, and finally settled on sprinkles over whole-grain bread, since his dad is an amazing chef,” the star, 45, joked of husbandDavid Burtka.
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Neil Patrick Harris and improv group OSFUG
Harris returned six weeks ago from filming the third and final season ofA Series of Unfortunate Events, in which he plays the prosthetically transformed Count Olaf, and has been since basking in the freedom of his spare time along with his daddy duties.
“[I’m] just getting back into theroutine of being a dadall the time, not just being a dad who’s there for a few days until I have to leave again,” he told PEOPLE. “Long distance is difficult. Necessary sometimes, but a challenge.”
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His plans for the near future involve sleeping in, making breakfasts and going on vacations, the formerHow I Met Your Motherstar told PEOPLE.
And one more activity they’re currentlybonding over as a family? Making puppets, Harris shared. “We’ve been spending a fair amount of time making inanimate objects animate,” he joked.
source: people.com
