Robert Sean Leonard Interview
Robert Sean Leonard is the actor who plays the “interesting” best friend to House, Dr. Wilson. He tries to bring humanity to our hero, usually with little success, but his character really helps us see another side of House.
Now, BuddyTV.com has managed to get an exclusive interview with Leonard, aka Wilson. Here’s an excerpt:
With the new cast members, ’cause with House finding a team, are there any of the actors or the characters that you’ve seen so far who you’ve been really impressed by? Just like ‘Wow, the writers came up with a great idea for a new character on House’s team’?
To be honest, I think they came up with quite a few. I’m not just kissing up, I really do think the writing on all the new characters is so good, in fact, we don’t quite know what we’re gonna do. At the moment, our show looks like the Supreme Court, quite a few characters running around. I think that’s probably gonna have to change eventually, but for the moment it’s kind of fun.
(lots more after the jump!)
Are they similar in any respects to House’s old team, or they are these completely new kind of characters with different traits?
They’re all new with completely different traits. Yes. They’re not similar at all.
OK, and I’m just wondering, because the relationship between Wilson and House, it’s very strange. It’s very convoluted and complex. And some people just wonder, why is your character still friends with this guy after everything he goes through? And as an actor like, how do you approach that and rationalize that this character would continue to be friends with House?
I think Wilson puts up with House for the same reason that millions of people watch him every week. I think he’s really dynamic and fun and audacious and self-deprecating. All those things that I think make people really appealing, and he tells it like it is. The money things, he doesn’t tend to pay you back, but I have a lot of friends like that. So I don’t find it that much of a mystery. I think House is a very attractive character. I think most people would want to be friends with him.
Be sure to go read the entire interview.
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1 opinion for Robert Sean Leonard Interview
sadie
Oct 12, 2007 at 11:14 am
I enjoy RSL immensely, he has a lovely sense of humor.
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