Although famous for playing an anti-hero in House, Laurie is new to supervillainy. When addressing purely craft-related questions, Laurie speaks with a cool erudition that bespeaks his schooling at Eton and Cambridge. We have to occupy the central role of our own drama, and certainly Roper is the central role of his. He looks stricken, saucer-eyed. While filming the miniseries, Laurie periodically worked himself into a state.
And I always spend the entire shoot running through the list of people they should have gotten to play the role. During this particular shoot, his list of preferred actors included one who has since died.
I thought that he has, or had, such a powerful presence, a sort of silky malice that he was able to summon. The refrain is a common one from Laurie, for whom the experience of being interviewed—of being asked to publicly expound, reveal, share—can be excruciating.
Not at all. By then, he was spending long months apart from his family back in England, where he lives with his wife of 26 years, Jo Green. They have three adult children, Charlie, Bill and Rebecca. But that was to do with the experience of playing the eponymous character in a television show, and therefore being confined to a black box for hours a week. But for that I was incredibly well paid.
No, there was no feeling of retreat. Cockiness, self-satisfaction and pride were the three deadly sins in the Laurie household, I think. And while there is something to be said for that, perhaps it can be taken too far. That Laurie happens to be an expansive interview subject is a byproduct of his discomfort. And he might seem a little moody and distant.
Chance, however, had a couple of things going for it. The new show is aggressively dark. In many ways, Chance is the anti-House. Second, the show piqued his interest in the subject of human psychology.
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Paul Slippery. Frederick Little - A Little Vacation Frederick Little voice. Show all 13 episodes. Jools Siviter uncredited. Vincente Minnelli. While considering them idiots is able to sometimes put aside his pride and apologize when he has offended them in a particularly cruel fashion. House uses his flippancy to conceal his affection toward his colleagues. He denies it to the extent that he himself sometimes forgets it. House is a total maverick and has stated that he frequents prostitutes.
His best friend, Dr. House frequently shows his cunning and biting wit, enjoys picking people apart, and often mocks their weaknesses. He then impresses them with rapid and accurate diagnoses after seemingly not paying attention or having been very rude. He often finds solutions to the problems in the middle of his own sentences, by quickly jumping from subject to subject. Frankly, most of his team are afraid of him, which is a rational response to his antics.
His grudging fulfilment of his work duty, or his creative methods of avoiding it, constitutes a recurring subplot. This often serves as comic relief. Further, House confounds patients with unwelcome observations into their personal lives, eccentric prescriptions, and unorthodox treatments.
However, after seeming to be inattentive to their complaints, he regularly impresses them with rapid and accurate diagnoses. These eventually save their lives. In order to do what he considers his work, he has also become a real masterful manipulator. It is very important for him to always be in control or being right in any situation. The insights that occur as he deals with some of the simple cases in the clinic often inspire him to solve the main case.
Of course this was inspired by Holmes running ideas past Watson. His genius does come with a price, namely mental problems. These are amplified by his anti-social behavior and drug abuse. Other colorful words that have been used to describe House are dangerous egomaniac, an ass, a cynic, a narcissist and a curmudgeon. He is, in fact, something of a mad, renegade doctor. House more or less does what he thinks is right regardless of the consequences.
He believes that heroism is a symptom, and cannot really exist. He is a bit surprised when people assault him, when he has gone too far, although he still understands exactly why that is. While he will fire incompetent staff, he will fire them if he has first provoked them into attacking him. This sometimes helps them come to realize things about themselves and is for their own good. But his motivation for doing this seems to stem mainly from an interest in creating his own entertainment.
Still, it sometimes has the extra benefit of actually helping others in the process. He longed for many years for his ex-girlfriend, Stacy Warner. But eventually realized that they could never have the life they both wanted to have. His only real friend is Dr. James Wilson, the head of the oncology department. He was born a military brat and hates his father or who he thought most of his life was his father but does genuinely love his mother.
He also seems to genuinely love Cuddy as well, but has trouble showing this properly. He is in chronic pain due to his incurable leg injury, caused by an infarction in his quadriceps muscle. He uses Vicodin to manage the pain. He will get extremely irritable without his Vicodin, or another suitable narcotic analgesic such as morphine, oxycodone or methadone. Fact is, though, that he has been to drug rehabilitation several times. Beyond his use of Vicodin, he has frequently used himself as a guinea pig for drugs and medical tests.
This disregard for his own well-being horrifies Wilson and Cuddy, who see it as an expression of his self-destructive impulses. He even swapped to Metadon for a while since it completely eliminated his pain, although it risked killing him all the time instead.
While most of his time goes into fanatically solving mysteries, he does have some hobbies too. As hobbies, he rides his motorcycle also to work and reads foreign medical journals. He likes soap operas on the TV, and is not pleased if his watching is interrupted. Still, despite his many character flaws, he is allowed to keep working as possibly the greatest diagnostician in the country, because he saves many, many lives in the end.
Except excruciating pain. This ray of sunshine is Doctor Lisa Cuddy. I am a Board-certified diagnostician with a double specialty in infectious disease and nephrology. I am also the only doctor currently employed at this clinic who is forced to be here against his will. And no, I do not have a pain management problem, I have a pain problem.
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