Jason Biggs says he turned down role as Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother: ‘ It’s probably my biggest regret’
Leading role on sitcom eventually went to actor Josh Radnor

Jason Biggs says he passed on the role of Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother – a move he now describes as his "biggest regret".
The American Pie star was asked about the part in a recent interview on SiriusXM.
"I was offered the role, yes," he said. "I was offered the role and – yeah – it's probably my biggest regret, on passing."
Biggs elaborated on his reasons for turning down the part, adding: "I think I was in a phase at the time – it sounds so obnoxious to say right now, but at the time it was like, 'Do I want to do TV?' I don't know that I was quite ready to go that route."
How I Met Your Mother began airing in 2005. In the mid-2000s, Biggs was in the middle of a string of film credits, including Guy X, Jersey Girl, and American Wedding, the 2003 sequel to American Pie.
In his SiriusXM interview, Biggs said the How I Met Your Mother script was "definitely original and funny", adding: "I was right for it, but I passed on it. And then two things happened very soon thereafter: one, that show blew up. We all know what happened with that show. And two, I was like: 'I want to do TV.'"
Biggs then "spent four years trying to get a show made", during which time How I Met Your Mother was "blowing up to be this massive show".
He said he and his former American Pie co-star Alyson Hannigan, who played Lily Aldrin in How I Met Your Mother, have never discussed the topic together and he "[doesn't] know if she knows" he turned down a part in the sitcom.
The role of Ted Mosby eventually went to actor Josh Radnor, who portrayed Ted for all of the show's nine seasons.

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This isn't the only instance in which Biggs and Radnor's careers crossed paths. In 2002, Radnor took over Biggs's role as Benjamin Braddock in a Broadway production of The Graduate, as Biggs had to step away temporarily for a film shoot.
Biggs did end up having a role in a high-profile TV show when he was cast as Larry Bloom in Netflix's Orange Is the New Black.
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