Hugh Laurie on returning to House: "He frankly doesn't care about the audience or reliving the show"

Damn. I wouldn’t have said I don’t care about the audience.

He probably considered House to be beneath him because he's a Real Actor and not some high-end prostitute like Noah Wyle.

He's always had a smug, dismissive attitude that I read as distinctly British. I can't stand the guy.

Be grateful for your opportunities and your fans - he views it with disdain. Asshole behavior.

This is the show that made him rich, so a little gratitude wouldn’t go amiss.

Um, the "quote" is Dr. Mike's (whoever that is) staff interpretation of what Laurie said.

Take this with a huge grain of salt

Brits like him and Brian Cox have always carried this condescension towards their American audience.

Maybe he and Tina Louise can start their own Podcast: "Don't Talk About My Resume"

I love him. He was always full of praise about his colleagues, first and foremost Lisa Edelstein. A big factor that makes him such a good artist is knowing when to stop a thing and start something fresh. And btw did you all forget House MD was produced by Bryan Singer?

Perhaps the Bryan Singer connection is part of the reason why he doesn't want to relive the show?

Robert Sean Leonard looks like a potato now, so there’s no point anyway.

R6 - Hugh Grant is the same way. There really is a thing among Brits as a whole with their condescension.

Hugh Laurie is a miserable cunt.

A thankless, ungrateful, miserable cunt.

Fuck him.

Would an actor's representative really say something like that?

A statement worthy of Dr House, the character Hugh Laurie claims to disown.

He’ll probably retract it as he appears to love the worship he gets no matter what he does.

Does he still have a career performing blues music?

I don't buy anyone in the entertainment industry saying they don't care about an audience... they're motivated by audience approval and admiration.

I don’t blame him. He probably thought the show was beneath him and did it for a paycheck.

It was dreck

[quote]As per the outlet, Laurie earned $300,000 per episode for several of the mid-series seasons of House. By 2010, his salary had soared to a staggering $400,000 per episode. Later on, with the success of the show and the popularity of his character, the actor worked out to around $7M per season...But that’s not all, for Laurie made $700,000 per episode at his peak, which later worked out to $16M per season. And according to the outlet, the actor had apparently earned the eye-watering sum of $16M for at least three seasons.

I despise actors who shit on the shows that either made them rich, famous, or both.

The first season was fresh and exciting--a lovely new take on the Sherlock Holmes saga before the landslide of Sherlock series started.

But no writer was going to be able to keep fresh the formula of a brilliant diagnostician who operated by perceiving "evidence" instead of working from the patient's narrative. There are not enough conditions that will lend themselves to that and have viable alternatives, plus the formula insisted he was always going to find the right answer 10 minutes from the end, no earlier or later. So, as usual with network dramas, it became pedestrian after the first season.

What di you want him to say?

That he would love above all things to reprise or reference a character he played for 8 years on a for a while passably engaging popular series that ended 13 years ago?

That he thinks a guest appearance on a rather more mediocre show on Max in the spirit of the last gasp of big linear networks in America is just the ticket?

That he'd do anything for his fans, any time, any place to serve up whatever "re-scattered, re-smothered, and re-covered" have-it-your-way re-hashed plate full of nostalgia wanted by his freakiest fans who can't let go of the lack of complete resolution of where things left off in 2012?

Sometimes saying "no" unequivocally is the best way to be done with the matter. Look around on DL, the level of nostalgia and concern with wrapping up the details of series that ended decades ago is endless. A hard no saves saying it and explaining it politely dozens of times.

He’s saying he doesn’t want to be on their shitty podcast

Dr Mike has been gushing over Noah Wylie lately re The Pitt and figured he’d get some more clicks with interviewing another fictitious doctor, a show that Dr Mike mocks btw.

I seriously doubt anyone gives a shit about him anyway these days. What’s he been doing? Once he was kind of sexy but now looks like a grizzled old cunt.

Anyway, I think he comes off as yet another arrogant celeb dick who’s now got enough fuck you money. All from playing a cunt. All he had to say was thanks, but no thanks.

Laurie deals with SEVERE depression. The show had him separated from his family for months at a time because they wanted their kids to be in school in England. I’ve read several things where he’s said that it was a hard and lonely time. I can’t blame him for not wanting to shoot the shit about it.

Bearing all that in mind…he pursued the role. He made the choices for the reasons he had and he was paid handsomely. I personally wouldn’t take a job away from my kids (if I had kids) but people are all different. He needs to not blame everyone else for the consequences of his actions.

R9 maybe. It might be part of the consideration.

[Quote] "I’m going to read you quote-unquote what he said: 'He is not interested in opportunities like this, frankly doesn't care about the audience or reliving the show.'"

Don’t listen to this person who doesn’t understand that “quote, unquote” would require using the correct pronoun to indicate a real quote.

Y'all who complain he was just in for the money: if he would do a new season now or a guest appearance or a podcast, you could justly say the same, and be more justified.

I love Hugh Laurie.

I love that he took the House gig in the first place to make a shitload of Fuck You money.

Now that he has FU money, why are people pissed off that he doesn't care about the show?

He is British, he is an actor and he is an intellectual, like his friend, Steven Fry.

He doesn't give a shit what people, his "fans" and fans of House, think. His work is all on the screen. It was a job.

Bravo Hugh!

Stephen Frye is no intellectual.

r28, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

He was great on VEEP.

[quote] He's always had a smug, dismissive attitude that I read as distinctly British. I can't stand the guy.

He treats acting as a job, in a way that lots of British actors do, and he doesn’t act as if it is a hugely vital thing. He earned his cash, and now he does a bit of acting when he fancies it and otherwise spends his time on his music. He never seems to have been unkind to his audience, but he doesn’t have a perpetual need to be worshipped by them.

Why the hate for him? He took on a job that was very well-paid, did that job well, entertained millions, earned a lot of cash and made a lot of cash for the studio. Then he moved on. How many of us would wish to return to a job we did 20 years ago?

The issue isn’t that he made a ton of money. No one is questioning his ability to act. Or that anyone wanted him to get into the House role again. How do some of you extrapolate all this from his one comment?

The issue is that he didn’t want to do a fucking podcast with the likes of Dr. Mike and was rude in his refusal. Apparently, FU money really does change some people.

A simple “no thanks” doesn’t suffice for the great actor Hugh Laurie. He’s got to be a drama queen about it.

[quote]What di you want him to say?

Something along the lines of:

"House was an extraordinary opportunity for me as an actor. I appreciate that years later there are still fans of the show and the great characters and stories. As an actor, it's important to keep moving forward, rather than reliving our past glory days, so I'd rather focus on current projects."

Bravo (or Brava) R33.

That’s how it’s done.

I'd still suck Laurie until his head caved in.

When House was first on he’d show up at Gelson’s on a loud motorcycle and park wherever the fuck he wanted to. He was someone who never got out of the way and had to be walked around. I can’t stand to look at him now. Too bad if he was depressed.

On the one hand, I get that an hour show is hard to film - 14-18 hour days 6 days a week. And he was away from his family.

On the other hand, as Don Draper once said, THAT'S WHAT THE MONEY IS FOR!

R33 believes Laurie and his fans would be better served if he sent all his responses to media enquiries to Chat GPT, specifying maximum setting of the PR filter for breezy regurgitation of obvious facts, sub-minimum disclosure of opinion or new information, and offering warm best wishes to all.

While I'm naturally more inclined to be politely evasive, I don't fault Laurie in the least for saying what he meant when some clown named Dr. Mike indicates interest in an interview for his podcast about Laurie's nostalgia for his Dr. House role in a TV series ended 13 years ago..

The esteemed Dr. Mike, according to Wiki: "known popularly as Doctor Mike, is a Russian-born American family medicine physician, YouTuber, internet personality, philanthropist, and professional boxer." Oh, and his IG once went viral! Even I wouldn't feign the least interest in a podcast interview with some man who doesn't know if he's a physician or a fisherman of Likes.

[quote]14-18 hour days 6 days a week

Whenver people quote the hours an actor "works," it includes spending time sitting in a makeup artists chair and time between takes napping in your dressing room.

It's not as if they're picking vegetables for 14 hours without time off to eat or bathroom breaks.

[quote][R33] believes Laurie and his fans would be better served if he sent all his responses to media enquiries to Chat GPT,

Well, shitting on the fans is clearly not the right choice.

I have no problem with his comments.

Speaking of Stephen Fry, I was quite disappointed that he never showed up as a guest star towards the end. He could have been the new hospital administrator, or chief of medicine or Cuddy's new squeeze. During the last episode I was holding out for hope that at least he would show up as St Peter at the gates of heaven, or god.

R38 deflects by trashing Dr. Mike and also approves of Laurie’s churlish comment. You must be nice to know.

Who really gives a shit about Dr. Mike? Go bump a DL thread about him. He’s been discussed and trashed before DL style.

And btw what’s wrong with Chat GPT for a celeb if it prevents him from coming across as a total and ungrateful douchebag?

He was o Graham Norton with George Clooney. Laurie said he remembered almost nothing technical from House whereas Clooney did recall things from ER.

I hope one day he ends up at a rickety folding table signing autographs at a has been convention.

He was great on Veep as Senator Tom James.