“For eight years, I worked as hard as I knew how, to make House as good as it could be. I frothed and fretted over every detail, every line, every moment. Driving home in the small hours, I pounded the steering wheel as I replayed mistakes in my mind. I tossed and turned every night, plotting the next day’s maneuvers, until I reached moments of near-madness — some would say nearer than near — because I loved House with all my heart, and loved the other characters and the world in which they moved just as much.”
- Hugh Laurie
Reason 128: He taped his audition for House in a hotel’s bathroom
-Hugh Laurie auditioned for the role as Dr. Gregory House in his hotel room bathroom in Namibia. He was rehearsing his role for the film The Flight of the Phoenix and claimed that the bathroom was the only place with enough light. He also apologized for his appearance on tape before the audition as he’d just come back from filming. The fact that House has a somewhat scruffy and unkempt look, particularly his constant five o’clock shadow, has been attributed by creator David Shore to Laurie’s appearance in this audition tape.-
Stephen Fry: I’ll ask you about House, give me the card there. House. How did you get the part? I mean there are some rumours, something to do with a bathroom in Namibia?
Hugh Laurie: I put myself on tape, uh, and yes, I did record that piece of tape in a bathroom, because it was the only place with enough light, the camera wouldn’t uh… I think I was sitting on the lavatory actually… Uhm-
SF: So you were sitting on the loo, as you have done as House in subsequent episodes
Hugh Laurie: I have… And in real life
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Imagine if he had shaved that day. House wouldn’t have been the same.
FOREVER THANKING THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX


