Interview with Garrett Lerner
MediaBlvd Magazine has a profile of Garrett Lerner, co-executive producer and writer of our beloved show. Apparently, Lerner turned the job down initially, only to be given a second chance in season two:
Although he loves being a part of the creative team for House, Lerner admits that he initially turned down the offer to write for the show. “Two years ago, Russ and I interviewed for several shows. Luckily, we got a job offer from multiple shows, and that was the first time that had ever happened to us. On a personal level, watching the pilot for House, it was so real and I found it very difficult to deal with, having gone through a diagnosis process with my son. I thought, ‘Man, this might hit too close to home. I don’t know if I could do this every week. I don’t know if I could live in this world of a person near death, desperately hoping for a diagnosis.’ I was looking at it from a patient’s point of view.”
“While we were on LAX, which lasted all of 8 episodes, I was watching House and realizing the show was so much more about this character, who is such an amazing character, and wishing we had picked that show to write for. As much fun as we had on LAX, it was gone and we’d been on a lot of shows that were gone. We saw that House was something special and, luckily enough, season two rolled around and we got another interview. Surprisingly, they didn’t hold our mistake against us and they offered us the job, once again. We did not turn them down the second time.”
Garrett’s son, Zeke, suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
One more quote on the joys of writing for House:
Tags: garrett-lerner, house, spinal-muscular-atrophy“There’s probably no writer on the planet that’s having more fun than those of us who get to write for Dr. House. You get to unleash your inner sarcastic ass, which I think we all have, or certainly I do. What could be more fun than calling an idiot, an idiot, in the most inventive way possible, each and every week. A lot of the attraction to this show is that people, week to week, can’t believe what House says, and what he gets away with. As writers, we get to say these incredibly obnoxious, horrible things, and there’s not much more fun you can have than that.”
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