Mayim Bialik recalls awkward moment that ruined friendship with Neil Patrick Harris

• In “The Late Late Show with James Corden”, Mayim Bialik explained how she fell out with Neil Patrick Harris.
• Bialik said she refused to give him a standing ovation after his performance on “Rent”.
• She explained that she refused because musicals weren’t her “thing”.

Mayim Bialik told “The Late Late Show with James Corden” that she felt “terrible” for the way she fell out with Neil Patrick Harris after refusing to give him a standing ovation for his performance in “Rent “.

Bialik and Harris became friends while starring together in the medical sitcom “Doogie Howser, MD” in which Harris starred.

During his appearance on “The Late Late Show,” Bialik explained to Corden, who has appeared in several musicals, including a modern remake of “Cinderella” earlier this month, his aversion to musicals, claiming that it is “ridiculous” that the genre switches between playing and singing.

When Corden asked the new host of “Jeopardy” the last time she watched a musical, she told him about the time she went to see a performance of “Rent” in which Harris was one of the actors. principal, filmmaker Mark Cohen.

“It’s a terrible story,” Bialik began before laughing to herself. “I mean, that was a long time ago. I was a teenager and it wasn’t my thing, but when your friend is in the room and everyone is clapping at the end, and you say to your little one friend next to you, ‘I I don’t want to put up with this. And then you look up and Neil Patrick Harris looks you straight in the eye, it’s a bad day. “

The 45-year-old actress continued, “I mean, he’s amazing, but I just wasn’t in the [idea of], ‘Let’s give a standing ovation.’ It wasn’t my thing. But this is the time when you don’t say it out loud, because Neil was reading my lips, and when I went backstage to say hello to him, he said, I’m not kidding, ‘Why did you Said you weren’t going to get up? ‘”

“He read my lips,” she said. “I didn’t get a good answer. It was terrible. It was bad. We didn’t talk for a long time. He said he forgave me and he sent me flowers when he got back. learned that I always wore this terrible [guilt] – I mean, I felt bad. It just wasn’t my thing. “

To that Corden replied, “You should feel bad. I actually think it takes more effort not to stand.” “Community” star Gillian Jacobs, who sat on the couch next to Bialik on the show, also agreed that the “Big Bang Theory” star should have been lying at the time.