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Secrets About House!

by Lynn on June 14th, 2008

Yesterday, Zap2It.com published a recap of some great new House secrets that were revealed during the screening of House for the Los Angeles Times’ Primetime Emmy screening series. Gee, don’t we all wish we had been able to be there? Fans came out in full force to see the Season Finale along with a Q&A session with some of the House cast members.

[Photo: ©2007 FOX Broadcasting Co.]

According to the article, the moderator for the session introduced Hugh Laurie as the “sexy, surly pinup boy”!! I love it! It’s perfect!

Also at the session were Robert Sean Leonard, Omar Epps, executive producer/creator David Shore, executive producer/director of the screened episode Katie Jacobs and director of photography Gale Tattersall.

Here’s a bit of the cool stuff that was revealed during the session. You’ll have to go to the article itself for all the secrets, but these were just too juicy to leave out!
(click on “Read More” for the scoop!)

On the major cast changes after season three: “The notion that people would keep working for [House] indefinitely is not real,” David said. He felt it would’ve been unrealistic to pretend that Cameron, Chase and Foreman would stay forever and put up with his crap, and after season three seemed like the right time for them to move forward since their fellowship with House was only supposed to last three years.

On the House/13 relationship: Next season, they will explore the contrast between these two, as related to their individual illnesses — House’s being an external sickness, 13’s Huntington’s disease being an internal sickness. As for any sexual tension between the two? “I think the sexual tension comes from the way [Olivia Wilde] looks!” David joked.

Hugh Laurie on House: “I love him, but that sounds a little weird,” he laughed. Hugh sees House as a romantic character, comparing him to the Phantom from Phantom of the Opera. He said that, from the pilot, House really didn’t want to interact with patients, partially because he was self-conscious about his limp and his physical limitations, which Hugh views in a romantic light.

Hugh Laurie Audition Facts: He couldn’t find a cane to bring to the audition, so he used an umbrella. Katie shared that Hugh wore a button that said “sexy” into the room. He insists it was simply his attempt at being ironic. While the pilot script called for House to be 34, David insists that he never wanted House to be that young. He was also worried about the chosen actor being too “chiseled,” because “if Brad Pitt had played the part, you would have gone, oh shut up!’”

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