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Lisa Edelstein Interview With TV Guide

by Lynn on November 20th, 2007

Lisa Edelstein is as fun a feisty off set as she is on, apparently. Check out this excerpt from her interviw with TVGuide.com. She is, as she puts it, a “smarty pants.”

TVGuide.com: House has been so busy with his candidates, we haven’t gotten as much of Cuddy lately. Will we see more of her soon?
Lisa Edelstein: It’s still pretty much focused on the new team, and it just starts becoming more of the regular construction of the episodes after Episode 9 [airing Nov. 27]. But then… everyone went on strike, so we’ve only got up till Episode 12 in the can, so Cuddy won’t be sleeping with House unless we get the writers back. So I’m out there picketing.

TVGuide.com: It would be quite something if the two of them got it on!
Edelstein: I’m all for Cuddy having sex sometime this season, so honk if you want to see my boobs.

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TVGuide.com: It’s been hinted in the past that there’s some kind of sordid history between Cuddy and House. Is there?
Edelstein: I would absolutely love it. They don’t really tell me anything — they don’t want me to get attached to any ideas that might be floating around the writers’ room. Yes, there have been ideas tossed around — but I have no idea what actually will or will not happen.

TVGuide.com: The banter between the two of them is one of the best things about the show.
Edelstein: I think so, too — it’s a really complicated, adult relationship. These are people who have very full lives and lots of responsibilities that perhaps conflict with their feelings for each other.

TVGuide.com: Hugh Laurie seems like a pretty irreverent guy himself — do you two have a similar rapport when the cameras are off?
Edelstein: We are an entire cast and writing crew of smarty-pants. So the conversations that go on when the cameras aren’t rolling are hilarious, and usually definitely not for publication. It is a process of great editing down to get that humor on the air without getting sued.

TVGuide.com: Cuddy is not your typical hospital administrator. For one thing, she wears some pretty tight-fitting, low-cut outfits. Which you look great in — but do you think it’s inappropriate for her position?
Edelstein: Thank you. She doesn’t care what people say — she doesn’t care how many fans of the show don’t like her outfits. Listen, it’s actually not reality. She’s a television character, and I’m an actress playing a hospital administrator, and I don’t want to be in frumpy clothes. I want to be a hot hospital administrator.

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