Britney Spears BSPEARSBOOTS031308_1.jpg We'd only been hearing good things about the time Britney spent on the set of How I Met Your Mother - but we clearly hadn't talked to Neil Patrick Harris!

PageSix.com reports that Harris claimed in an interview that Britney "seemed nervous" during a readthrough for the show earlier this week. "[S]he wore the big sunglasses the whole time," he remarked. "I think that's a bit of a security blanket.”

In person, Harris says, Britney's actually powerfully vulnerable. "Being up close to her, she seems like a very sort of fragile, kind of complicated person; it must be very strange to live in her life."

Of course, it's worth remembering that Britney's frailty might have just been nervousness over working on a show she loves so much. And besides, Harris had nothing but positive things to say about Brit's actual work, calling her "very professional" and praising her performance as "good".

Sounds like Britney's still got what it takes to pull herself together when the camera's rolling!