Neil Patrick Harris explains why he turned down American Horror Story

“We had just played ourselves as a couple not getting along, and I thought, ‘It just seems weird to do that twice, as individual actors to play a couple that hate each other twice. So I said ‘no,’ that we shouldn’t do it,” Harris says.

He was, however, intrigued by the show and remains open to casting possibilities. “Fingers crossed,” he said about joining Ryan Murphy’s campy gang in the future.