Hugh Laurie and Lisa Edelstein in tonight's "5 to 9" episode of HOUSE
Tonight’s episode of Fox’s House takes a different point of view when the entire episode focuses on Cuddy, played by Lisa Edelstein. While the show normally revolves around House (Hugh Laurie), getting more inside Cuddy’s world will give audiences a chance to understand the character a little bit better. It also gave Edelstein a challenge in her acting work as the actress recently explained during a press call with journalists.
Edelstein immediately addressed the questions about her current relationship with Lucas (Michael Weston) and House. “I like the difference between [Cuddy’s] relationship with Lucas and her relationship with House. I think on one hand you see this kind of uncomplicated ease with this guy who’s just showing up. He shows up. He actually does his best and shows up and wants to be there versus the guy that she had this long, deep, fascinating, back-and-forth with that she can’t seem to steer clear of and what he actually means in her world, how he affects her world. So, I think there’s a lot of levels to it.”
Of which man Cuddy could end up with, Edelstein wished she could offer up an answer. “I don’t know because they don’t tell me. So, I would hate to guess. But, I that think sometimes you just want to be in the relationship that looks good on paper and that is the relationship you think you’re supposed to be in. But, I’m not sure that that really works. So, when and if that doesn’t work, I guess what you would do is really give it a shot with the thing that excites you most. But that’s going to sound like a spoiler, and it actually isn’t because I haven’t the faintest idea what’s happening.”
Regardless, Edelstein thinks the relationship with Lucas is good for Cuddy right now. “I think for right now, it’s something she really needed to explore having because she’s been alone for a while, a long time and kind of chasing after a House that was completely unavailable. So, this season, suddenly he turns around and announces he’s available, but it’s years that this has been going on. It’s not so easy.”
Over the years, does the actress think her character has changed over the last six seasons? “Well, I don’t think characters change. I think they become more revealed. I don’t think you really can change a character on a show. David Shore was talking about this, as well, a while back, because if you change the character, then the dynamic changes. I think what happen is in the first season of any episode, as the audience, you’re presented with a vague picture of these people. You, as an audience member, project onto them your idea of who they are and how they fit. As the years go by and the writers get to write more deeply about each individual, they just expose themselves little by little. I don’t mean that in a nude way. Although, actually I do because that’s pretty much what happened with my character. Every season, I become more and more disrobed.”
Series star Hugh Laurie has taken a stab at directing House but Edelstein doesn’t see that in her future. “Writing an episode would be an enormous challenge because they work about six months on these cases in trying to find diseases that can be confused for other things that yet you can tell a story with that’s interesting. I mean, it’s a very complicated process. Watching Hugh do the directing, it actually was really a little more inspiring, because I hadn’t really thought about it before. Ultimately, I’m just thinking of things will interest me when House is finally done, which I don’t even know when that is, and in the meantime, just trying to see as much of the world as I possibly can.”
The “5 to 9” episode of House airs tonight on Fox at 8/9c.
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