However, this configuration of the cast was never a guarantee.
Plenty of other actors auditioned for the part of Barney Stinson including Jim Parsons of The Big Bang Theory.
Since he was still known as “Doogie Howser, M.D.
“, the role of Barney was against punch in for Harris, yet it worked.
Can you see this actor as the hopeless romantic Ted?
Ted Mosby was also offered to Jason Biggs (viaE!
I don’t know that I was quite ready to go that route.”
As for Foley, it doesn’t seem like there’s bad blood between him and Bays/Thomas.
They would later cast him in their show “The Goodwin Games.”
And while that show was canceled, Foley would soon co-star on “Scandal.”
And that folks, is how Jake Ballard met Olivia Pope.
