Things we didn’t know about Neil Patrick Harris

Well, we didn’t know that he could be anything less than amazing while hosting an awards show but the Emmys showed us that the other night.

But a feature on Neil Patrick Harris in the new Vanity Fair is filled with other things we did not know about the multi-talented star of stage and screen. I didn’t know, for example, that he has a whole other Twitter account just for his food porn or that his knees crackle like Rice Krispees.

Other NPH tidbits:
HE QUELLS pre-show butterflies by first doing a series of deep-breathing exercises to calm himself down and then drinking a can of Red Bull to rev himself up.

HE RETAINS his signature mussed-forward hairstyle with an oversize, ChapStick-like grooming product from Indonesia called a Tancho Tique.

HE BELIEVES that, had he been a star in the 1950s and compelled by the mores of the time to enter into a sham marriage for publicity purposes, he would have taken as his bride either Doris Day or Cyd Charisse—“sort of the feminine-masculine,” he explains.

HE DOESN’T want How I Met Your Mother fans to be alarmed by his pending weight loss, whose cause will not be illness but rigorous preparation for the Hedwig part. “As Barney I’m all shoulders and arms and chest, but as Hedwig I’ll be all legs and butt and back,” he says. “Like Cyd Charisse.”