Hugh Laurie: I Experimented With Vicodin
I'm probably a network television executive's worst nightmare, in that I very rarely watch network TV. Pretty much the only time I tune in is for a sporting event, or when one of my kids is watching something like Celebrity Apprentice (yeah, I know, but I gotta see if Trace Adkins takes the whole thing). There is one exception...House.
House has been a recent addition to my viewing habits, but a welcome one. For those of you unfamiliar with the premise, Dr. Gregory House is the head of a team of diagnosticians at a teaching hospital, who's patients typically come to them after having failed to receive a diagnosis, or an incorrect diagnosis, at other hospitals. He's cranky, irritable, egotistical, cynical, unorthodox, curmudgeonly, and a medical genius. Oh, and he also abuses Vicodin, due to a past infarction in the quad muscle of one of his legs (the dead muscle was removed), which requires him to use a cane and keeps him in constant pain. While this addiction hasn't caused his grating personality, it doesn't help it any.
Hugh Laurie, the ruggedly handsome, extremely talented, and versatile British actor who plays the doctor, has recently admitted to experimenting with Vicodin to get a better feel for his character:
Not that he’s been labeled a realistic Method actor before, but Hugh Laurie admits he attempted to get closer to the character he portrays on House — by experimenting with Vicodin, the strong painkiller to which Dr. Gregory House is addicted.“I wouldn’t recommend it — we have to be careful,†Laurie, 48, tells Britain’s Radio Times magazine, “But then again … if you’re not in pain it gives a floaty, pleasurable feeling.â€
I haven't been able to find the rest of the interview (it is advertised as being in the new issue, so maybe it just isn't online yet...I'll have to visit my local bookstore). Continued on the next page
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