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For the past eight seasons, actor Hugh Laurie has played Dr. Gregory House on the Fox medical series House. House is brash, narcissistic, unsympathetic, addicted to painkillers, confrontational — and 100 percent American.
Laurie is none of those things.
"I am not playing House today, so I am dressed as an Englishman and speaking as an Englishman," he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "I'm wearing a bowler hat and carrying a furled umbrella. It's nice to have a day every now and then off from the vocal exercises."
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Laurie has had a lot of time to get comfortable. House, which is wrapping up its final season, has been on Fox for the past eight years. During that time, Laurie's character has diagnosed dozens of patients suffering from rare ailments, while continually mocking his colleagues and maintaining a serious addiction to Vicodin, which he uses to manage a chronic leg condition. (Dr. House walks with a cane.)
Playing a character with chronic pain — and a limp — did not come easily for Laurie, he says.
"I think pain is an extremely hard thing to empathize [with] moment to moment," he explains. "You often don't remember your own pain. That moment that you broke a limb or injured yourself ... the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and hard to relive, thankfully. ... And it's also hard to imagine someone else's."
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http://www.npr.org/2012/04/25/151354...o-pain-no-gain
I'm going to miss this TV show a lot. Thanks Hugh Laurie!
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