Hugh Laurie has said he would 'love' to write an episode of the show and his dream job would be a Bond villain.

50-year-old Laurie is well known across the world for his role as the miserable Dr House and he said that he would love to write an episode.

He said: "I'd love to write an episode of House sometime, but I am not equipped. Those guys are cleverer than cats.
"I'd love to direct, as the cliche goes, but then I'd lose any right to complain about how hard I work - and I do love my complaining."

Laurie also admitted that he would love to play the role of a Bond villain in the future.

"It's the best gig going. I also love Dr Who. I grew up with it. I'd play anything that involved less than five hours in the make-up chair.
"I also love doing voice work. You can wear your own clothes if you want and read from a script."

Source: Splash News

Le vendredi 18 décembre à 20h40, la chaine Odyssée va présenter une bio de Hugh Laurie de 45mn

"Avant de devenir la star mondialement connue grâce à la série Docteur House, Hugh Laurie était déjà un acteur britannique de télévision très populaire. A 45 ans, celui qui est passé par une dépression qui a bien failli lui coûter sa carrière, est aujourd'hui au sommet de sa gloire. Véritable sex symbol, Hugh Laurie n'a pas toujours connu la gloire et le succès..."

J'ai cette chaine

Hugh Laurie se met en scène dans Dr House.
Série TV | publié le jeudi 10 décembre 2009

L'excellent Hugh Laurie multiplie les casquettes au sein de Dr House. Déjà acteur et producteur, il passera derrière la caméra pour réaliser un prochain épisode de la saison 6.

Hugh Laurie est un vrai bourreau de travail ! Déjà très occupé (entre 12 et 15 heures par jour) par son personnage de Dr House, il prendra quand même le temps de réaliser le 17ème épisode de la saison 6 actuellement en cours de diffusion aux USA.

Hugh Laurie est présent dans un grand nombre de scènes de Dr House, beaucoup plus que les personnages principaux d'autres séries. Il faut dire que dans Dr House, les personnages sont assez peu nombreux, ce qui permet de les étudier en profondeur, et House est bien évidemment LE personnage de la série. Hugh Laurie est également l'un des producteurs du show, mais aussi un excellent musicien. On peut d'ailleurs le voir régulièrement assis à son piano ou gratouillant l'une de ses guitares dans la série, pour laquelle il a composé quelques musiques.


Bref, le talent de Hugh Laurie pourrait donner un épisode particulièrement réussi, d'autant que le scénario ne sera pas "traditionnel", d'après la productrice exécutive Katie Jacobs. "Hugh est là depuis le tout début et il aura de nombreuse idées pertinentes pour cet épisode. Toute l'équipe de la série aura le moral et se donnera à fond pour le leader du show". L'intrigue est pour le moment top-secrète.

Pour Hugh Laurie, ce ne sera pas sa première expérience derrière puisqu'il a déjà réalisé des épisode de la série anglaise Fortysomething, dans laquelle il était également acteur et scénariste. Cet épisode très attendu de Dr House sera tourné dès la rentrée du mois de janvier, pour une diffusion prévue pour le 22 mars 2010 sur la FOX.

Source: cinemovies.fr

Il est foooooooooou

Et on rajoute

Hugh Laurie to Direct “Intense” Episode of ‘House’
by Matt Webb Mitovich

Well if this isn’t just what the doctor ordered: Hugh Laurie is on board to direct his first episode of ‘House,’ to air sometime this spring.

“I am thrilled, daunted and honored – with a ‘U’ – by this new responsibility,” the British actor says of the assignment. “‘House’ scripts are Fabergé eggs, and I will try my very hardest not to drop this one on a stone floor.”

Ah, don’t be fooled by the man’s humility. Though this is his first time directing the hit Fox medical drama, Laurie has stepped behind the camera elsewhere, including for several 2003 episodes of the UK TV series ‘Fortysomething’ (on which he also starred).

‘House’ executive producer Katie Jacobs says the episode Laurie is directing is “very intense, and truly a director’s piece,” but shared no plot details.

Jacobs has been after Laurie to helm an episode since Season 1. As such, she quips, “I can’t believe he’s actually doing it.”

But doing it he is, and few could be more thrilled than the ‘House’ keepers. “There is no one more qualified to direct the show than Hugh Laurie,” Jacobs says. “He is simply the most versatile, talented, funny actor on TV today. Add to that an impeccable feeling for the visual storytelling, and you have the makings of a great director.”

That said, she admits, “I don’t know how he’s going to be in two places at once. But that part we’ll just have to figure out.”

Source: Fancast

Davina McCall* admits to 'House' crush

Tuesday, January 5 2010, 15:57 GMT
By Dan French, US TV Editor

Davina McCall has admitted that she has a soft spot for Hugh Laurie.

Speaking to Radio Times, the Big Brother host also revealed that she is "addicted" to House, which stars Laurie in the titular role.

"I'm addicted to House," she said. "I love the storylines, the plot, but more than anything, I love Hugh Laurie - he's absolutely gorgeous.

"I'm forever asking myself, 'Is it wrong to fancy Hugh Laurie?'"

McCall went on to praise Disney show Hannah Montana, which she described as "really enjoyable" and "very funny".

Source: Digital Spy

*présentatrice de TV anglaise

Moi, je suis d'accord avec la dame... Absolutely gorgeous

Winner Hugh Laurie brings House down
By Alistair Foster Last updated at 12:37pm on 07.01.10

Hugh Laurie basks in the applause after a double win at the People's Choice Awards in Los Angeles.

The 50-year-old was named Favourite TV Drama Actor for his role as a maverick genius in hit medical drama House, while the show - now in its sixth series - took Favourite TV Drama.

The British star faced stiff competition at the awards, which are voted for by the US public, from 24 star Kiefer Sutherland, Lost's Matthew Fox and Patrick Dempsey from Grey's Anatomy.


Victor: Hugh Laurie basks in the applause

Collecting his best actor award, he said: "This is a magnificent honour. If you're going to be chosen by the people, then the American people are a pretty decent bunch to be chosen by."

Laurie has already won two Golden Globes for his role as Dr Gregory House, as well as honours from the Screen Actors Guild.

The show has about 18 million viewers in the US as well as a healthy following in Britain.

Source: London Evening Standard

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Hugh peut-être dans un nouveau film?

With 'Oranges,' Hugh Laurie of 'House' (and possibly 'Gossip Girl' Leighton Meester) could take the film plunge
February 8, 2010 | 3:47 pm



It can be a crapshoot when TV actors step from the small screen into features; for every George Clooney or Steve Carell, there's a Zach Braff or Katherine Heigl.

Lau But a buzzed-about new movie called "Oranges" may be trying exactly that. The project, a dark dramatic comedy about an older man who has an affair with the daughter of a family friend, has been on Hollywood's radar for several years now. Back in 2008, the Jay Reiss-Ian Helfer script landed on the Black List, the grouping of the entertainment industry's most desired screenplay. (It came in at No. 2, ahead of vaunted projects like "Inglourious Basterds" and just behind the "The Beaver," the Mel Gibson-Jodie Foster collaboration that could hit later this year.) And it's being produced by Anthony Bregman, an indie producer with serious bona fides -- like, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" bona fides. (Glen Basner's Film Nation and Leslie Urdang's Olympus Pictures, incidentally, are financing "Oranges.")

Now the project may have another claim to fame: It could mark the first lead feature role for Hugh Laurie, who plays Dr. Gregory House on the hit Fox medical series. Sources say that Laurie is in discussions to play the lead role of the creepy/sympathetic older man. The British actor has done voice work and a number of supporting parts in films such as "Sense & Sensibility" and "Stuart Little" but has never carried a movie before. Of course his work as a darkly comic presence on Fox for the past five-plus should make him familiar to audiences. And he has a versatile acting background, starring in a range of roles with former partner Stephen Fry.)

The "Oranges" TV credentials don't stop with Laurie, though. Sources say two candidates have jumped to the top of the list for either the lead female role or possibly another role: "Gossip Girl" Leighton Meester and former "That '70s Show" co-star Mila Kunis. The latter has been turning a few film tricks of late -- she starred as the romantic/action co-lead in "The Book of Eli," and is playing a nemesis figure opposite Natalie Portman in Darren Aronofsky's upcoming "Black Swan." Meester, known for the pincers-out Blaire Waldorf character on "Gossip Girl," would be wading into newer waters (a foray that would mark an interesting litmus test for CW stars on the big screen -- just as Chace Crawford attempts same in "Footloose").

Television roles can in some ways be more demanding than film, since they require a much higher arc over many hours of episodes, not just a three-act transformation. But, of course, everything is also more magnified on the theatrical screen, so when actors seem too small for a part, or try too hard, the results can be disastrous.

In a poetic twist, boith Meester and Kunis are set to star opposite each other in the upcoming comedy "Date Night." The film is headlined by Steve Carell and Tina Fey -- so Kunis and/or Meester could at least have a successful TV-film path in which to follow.

-- Steven Zeitchik

Photo: Hugh Laurie of "House." Credit: Fox Broadcasting Co.

Source: Los Angeles Times

Info en français cette fois !

Hugh Laurie séduit une jeunette.
Tournage | publié le mardi 09 février 2010

Ils sont certainement nombreux les fans du Dr House qui se demandaient quand le talentueux Hugh Laurie oserait passer sur la toile pour un rôle principal. Et bien cela ne devrait plus tarder puisque l'acteur est en négociations pour jouer dans Oranges.

Hugh Laurie a cependant déjà une belle carrière au cinéma, mais dans des seconds rôles principalement. C'est vraiment la série Dr House qui l'a révélé à tous.

Oranges est un projet écrit par Jay Reiss (Toute l'histoire de mes échecs sexuels) et Ian Helfer, meilleurs amis depuis 15 ans. Les deux hommes qui ont mené des carrières séparées ont décidé qu'il était temps de travailler ensemble. Oranges est une sombre comédie dans laquelle un homme d'âge mûr entretient une relation amoureuse avec la fille d'un couple d'amis et boulevrese ainsi leur vie.

Le pitch semble tout à fait coller à l'image de séducteur cynique de Hugh Laurie. Pour camper la jeune femme la production est en discussions avec Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl) et Mila Kunis (Sans Sarah, rien ne va) et n'a pas encore arrêté son choix.

Anthony Bregman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Synecdoche New York) produit ce film et Julian Farino, qui a réalisé de nombreux épisodes de l'excellente série Rome, est en pouparlers pour prendre la direction du projet.

La saison 6 de Dr House est actuellement diffusée aux Etats-Unis.

Source: cinemovies.fr



Hugh Laurie aime les oranges

09 fév 2010 Par Eric Provot

Hugh Laurie, Dr House pour les intimes, serait en négociations pour jouer le rôle principal de la comédie d'humour noir Oranges. Il y interprétera un homme entretenant une relation intime avec une fille d'un ami de sa famille. Il pourrait y côtoyer Mila Kunis (Le livre d'Eli) et Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl). Aucun des rôles n'a encore été officiellement annoncé et aucun réalisateur n'a été désigné.

Pour information, le scénario de ce film écrit par Jay Reiss and Ian Helfer a fait partie de la liste noire des meilleures œuvres non produites de 2008. Cette liste contenait également Inglourious Basterds.

Source: ecranlarge.com

February 21, 2010

Hugh Laurie finds happiness in LA
After six years in the US, the actor is feeling at home, although he's still English enough to be bemused by his sex-object status

Christopher Goodwin

When Hugh Laurie pitches up for our interview carrying a motorcycle helmet, I ask, stupidly, if he has come on his bike. “Well, if I hadn’t,” he replies, “that would be an absurd affectation. Although, in this town, it’s probably not unknown.”

This town being Los Angeles, of course, where Laurie, sometimes uneasily, has been living for the best part of six years. During that time, the Oxford-born, Cambridge-educated actor, once known for playing upper-class English twits, has become, as much to his astonishment as anyone else’s, the biggest television star not just in America, but in the world. Now in its sixth season, House, the medical mystery in which Laurie plays the caustic, misanthropic, witty, cane-brandishing, Vicodin-addicted, Sherlock Holmes-modelled Dr Gregory House, is the most watched drama series on the planet.

Yet, as I look at him, slumped in a wicker chair on the patio of the Chateau Marmont hotel, on Sunset Boulevard, it does seem hard to fathom. Of all the people here this afternoon, including Tom Cruise’s wife, Katie Holmes, who is in the lobby, you would immediately tag Laurie as quite the least at home in such a quintessentially Hollywood setting. More famous than all of them put together, he could hardly look less chic, wearing what I’m sure is the same outfit he has favoured for years: a dark-blue, yellow-tipped polo shirt, black jeans and blue Nikes, his hair tousled, a rough beard, a handsome, appealing face that is starting to show the cares and creases of his 50 years. Through it all peer his sharp, quizzical blue eyes.

To the amusement of some of his friends, Laurie is not just a global superstar now, mobbed and needing protection from bodyguards when he ventures even to places such as Spain; he has been transformed into an international heart-throb and sex symbol. As is soon apparent.

A young, blonde English actress trots over and introduces herself, arching her back and thrusting her breasts forward to impressive effect. She claims she’s from Belsize Park, in northwest London, where Laurie also lives, and tries to draw up a chair to sit with us before we politely discourage her. She is on her first visit to LA, she tells Laurie, and would very much like his advice. Actually, I think what she really wants is for Dr House to put her over his gammy knee and give her a damn good spanking. Which I am sure he would happily do. Laurie, however, is a trifle embarrassed, in a touchingly British kind of way, muttering pleasantries — “I don’t mean to give you the cold shoulder” — but clearly no longer surprised at the weird awkwardness of such encounters.

It’s not the only one. An American man comes over and says he met Laurie a while ago when they were both on their motorbikes in Beverly Hills. “We were supposed to go riding, but you never called,” the man says, possibly joking, probably not. “I’m very insulted you didn’t call me.”

Laurie’s eyebrows arch as the man walks away. “No idea who that was. Not a clue.” After a pause, he adds, no doubt not wishing to appear the stuck-up star: “Having said that, it is flattering that people take an interest of any kind.” Indeed.

As he sips a cappuccino, he tells me that he lived in the Chateau Marmont for the first eight months after he came to LA to play House. “I was so convinced the whole thing was going to fail, I couldn’t contemplate committing to any long-term arrangement. I thought a hotel was a safe bet.” He was also hedging because he was understandably anxious about what it would all mean for him, and his family, if the show did take off. He is married to Jo Green, a theatre administrator; they have three children, who were all at school in England when House started. Having become close friends with Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry and other British acting stalwarts through the Cambridge Footlights — people he continued to work with through the years — Laurie had a successful career and a comfortable life in England. Some of his roles, such as the lovable aristocratic buffoon Bertie Wooster in Jeeves and Wooster, with Stephen Fry playing Jeeves, are British television classics. He had also written a novel, which became a bestseller in France.

So he must have been shocked when House became a hit, and he realised he was going to be out in LA for more than one season. “I still am. There are a lot of days when I feel as if I have been woken from a coma and told six years have gone by, and I have no awareness of it. Is Queen Elizabeth still on the throne? Do we still drive on the left? Do we still have pounds?”

Does he know how many episodes he has done? “Er, no, I don’t. It’s more than 100, because we’re coming to the end of our sixth season. Maybe 120? It’s ridiculous. I have almost been playing House long enough to have qualified to become a doctor.” In fact, 124 episodes of House have been broadcast up to now in America, and Laurie is signed up for two more seasons. He directed his first one a few weeks ago, and has become an executive producer on the show. Now believed to be earning in the region of $400,000 an episode, Laurie has been made wealthy beyond his or anyone’s wildest dreams.

All that money can obscure how numbing and relentless the day-to-day working life of an actor in an American television series can be. Especially for someone such as Laurie, who is in almost every scene, and on whom every episode depends. British tele­vision is a doddle by comparison — Blackadder, for example, in which Laurie appeared as various idiots over the years, stretched to just 24 episodes, half an hour each, over four seasons. Most seasons of House have had between 22 and 24 hour-long episodes, each taking nine or 10 days to shoot, in five-day weeks. That’s getting on for 45 or more weeks of the year, with 5am call times and 16-hour days not at all uncommon, especially in the early seasons.

“Those first years, that was tough going,” Laurie admits. “It was hard to keep morale up and keep concentrating, keep forging ahead.” It didn’t help that for the longest time, British newspapers seemed full of reports of Laurie’s misery and his anguish at being separated so much from his family. Grumpy, gloomy Hugh Laurie became a tired newspaper cliché. Has it got easier, I wonder?

“It’s a way of living that, had you described it to me 10 years ago, I would have just found absurd beyond belief, inconceivable. But here we are. Yes, there were plenty of times when it was pretty overwhelming, I think for everybody. Like anybody completely absorbed in a single thing, it’s rather unhealthy. It’s the sort of thing you can do for a certain period of time — in a sort of emergency state — but you can’t live like that indefinitely because you start popping rivets.

“Look, it sounds like I’m moaning,” he adds. “I am constantly aware of my good fortune. But the thing is, almost nothing in this life is as easy as it looks. I did work very, very hard — I do still — but it has been very rewarding, very enjoyable, and I work with a terrific bunch of people. So I feel blessed.”

It has also got easier as his children, who are now 21, 19 and 16, have grown up. After six years, Laurie and his family seem to have settled into a comfortable rhythm. In years past, he says, he would have flown home for four days for the Presidents’ Day holiday, during which we are meeting. “But now my children are scattered to the four winds, I can’t go and see them all anyway.” His wife Jo spends much of her time in LA with him already.

With an unaccustomed day off, Laurie spent the morning boxing. How else do you pass your downtime out here? “Oh, I play the piano. And I play in a band” — the so-called Band from TV, which includes stars from a number of top American television series and does charity gigs. Laurie plays keyboard and sings.

I’m sure he can get glum, and his mind naturally tends towards the philosophical, but Laurie’s default demeanour seems to be a refreshing wry amusement, often about himself. However heavy the burdens may have felt to him in the past, there seems even a breeziness about him now. That is partly because, as House has sustained its success and creative energy — it has won just about every possible award, including four Emmys, while Laurie has scooped two Golden Globes — he says he has become less obsessive. “I used to worry much more about the prospect of failure,” he admits. “That 200 people were going to be out of a job. That shame and disgrace would attach, and I would have my acting uniform stripped from me.”

He says he would have chucked it all in a few seasons ago if he didn’t continue to find Gregory House such an enthralling character, surely one of the most consistently fascinating to have emerged from television. “Yes, I still like him very, very much. I know he has problems, and he is not necessarily a good man. But I realised long ago that one doesn’t only like good people. Sometimes one doesn’t even like good people.”

What does he like most about him? “I suppose I am drawn to people who worry, who are tortured. I find I am always faintly suspicious of happy people. I always think there is something going wrong or missing somewhere. They would probably argue that I am the one with the thing missing, and that may be so. But the fact that he is not happy makes a lot of his mis­demeanours more forgivable. If someone is behaving badly, yet remains unhappy and tortured, the bad behaviour is very often its own punishment, so it’s hard to be too upset by it.”

As hard as it may have been at times, Laurie is going to find it even harder to say goodbye to Gregory House when the time comes. I presume he plans to move back to England then. To my surprise, he says he is thinking about staying in LA.

“I can certainly imagine it, in a way I couldn’t have done before,” he says. “It held no appeal for me before, but I do have an affection for the place now. Maybe once the show finishes, I will see it in a different way. For now, I’m in a gilded cage.”

House returns to Sky 1 on March 7

Source: The Sunday Times

Hugh Laurie ne croyait pas en Dr [H]ouse

Interview Hugh Laurie
Série TV / News / le 22/02/2010, 12h20
Par Arnaud Cuirot

Lors d'une interview accordée au Times, Hugh Laurie alias Dr House revient sur la manière dont il vécut les débuts de la série. Loin du discours triomphant que nous pourrions attendre de l'acteur principal d'une des séries les plus regardées au monde, Laurie confie ses craintes originelles.

« J'étais tellement convaincu que tout ceci allait échouer que je n'arrivais pas à envisager le long terme. J'ai donc pensé (à son arrivée à Los Angeles) que l'hôtel serait plus sûr que d'acheter une maison. Ces premières années furent très dures. Ce fut difficile de garder le moral au beau fixe, de se concentrer et de continuer d'avancer. ».

Emmy Award, Golden Globe, SAG award, WGA Award... Plus qu'une série mais un véritable phénomène, Dr [H]ouse fut récompensé à de multiples reprises tout en réalisant des scores d'audiences impressionnants. Pourtant, il aura fallu beaucoup de temps à l'acteur pour se détendre « J'avais pris l'habitude de m'inquiéter beaucoup à propos d'un échec, que 200 personnes se retrouvent au chômage... Que cette honte et cette disgrâce me colleraient à la peau et qu'on m'arracherait mon uniforme d'acteur. ». Nous pouvons sans prendre trop de risques d'ores et déjà rassurer Hugh Laurie : Dr [H]ouse est un succès mondial et doit beaucoup à son interprétation.

Pour conclure, l'interprète de l'acariâtre docteur donne son avis sur son personnage, le secret du Dr House ? « Je sais qu'il a des problèmes et qu'il n'est pas nécessairement un homme de bien. Mais j'ai réalisé il y a longtemps que les gens n'aiment pas seulement les bonnes personnes. Quelques fois même, certains ne les aiment pas du tout. ». Message transmis à TF1 qui avait refusé en 2007 de diffuser sept épisodes de la première saison, ayant jugé le héros éponyme trop antipathique pour ce fragile public français.

Source: filmsactu.com

Ce soir, sur Arte à 20h35, il y a "Raison et sentiments" avec Hugh Laurie

"Je suis qualifié pour être médecin désormais!"



Hugh Laurie était tellement convaincu que Docteur House ne fonctionnerait pas qu'il s'est installé dans un hôtel plutôt que de chercher un appartement au début de la série, il y a six ans. L'acteur britannique a fait du Château Marmont sa résidence principale pendant huit mois quand il a mis le pied à Los Angeles pour enfiler la blouse blanche du célèbre médecin.

"J'étais tellement convaincu que ça allait échouer que je ne pouvais pas envisager de m'engager dans un arrangement sur le long terme. Je pensais que l'hôtel était une valeur sûre", a-t-il confié au Times of London. "Souvent, j'ai l'impression que je viens de me réveiller d'un coma long de six ans et que je n'ai pas conscience du temps qui s'est écoulé. Est-ce que la Reine Elizabeth est toujours sur le trône? Roulons-nous toujours à gauche? Payons-nous encore en livres?"

Il ajoute, toujours sur le ton de la blague: "Je joue House depuis tellement longtemps que je suis désormais qualifié pour être médecin."

Dé.L.
23/02/10 15h43

Source: 7sur7

25-02-2010 - 12h50
Dr House : Hugh Laurie dans le prochain album de Meat Loaf !

Après le passage du cultissime hard rocker Meat Loaf dans la série Dr House l’an dernier, c’est au tour d’ Hugh Laurie de rendre visite à ce dernier. D’après le site Undercover, l’interprète de Gregory House jouera en effet du piano sur le prochain album du chanteur.

On connaissait déjà les prouesses musicales d’Hugh Laurie, alias Gregory House, qui passe souvent derrière le piano pour les besoins de la série, et s’était récemment joint à l’initiative Band from TV ... Et bien Undercover nous annonce une nouvelle qui ne manquera pas d’élever le taux d’endorphines des fans de Dr House : le bon docteur accompagnera au piano le vétéran du Rocky Horror Picture Show , Meat Loaf, sur son prochain album.

C’est alors qu’il jouait un homme mourant en attente de greffe cardiaque, dans la cinquième saison de la série (photo), que le rocker aurait eu cette idée. En plein tournage, Hugh Laurie prend ainsi le piano pour la scène d’un épisode et, le lendemain, Meat Loaf lui proposera la maquette d’une chanson entièrement au piano, accompagnée d’une petite note : « Ecoute ça. C’est une démo et j’adorerai que tu joues dessus. » Laurie acceptera évidemment.

Ce prochain album de Meat Loaf, intitulé Hang Cool Teddy Bear, est un album concept inspiré d’une histoire de Killian Kerwin sur un homme blessé à la guerre. En plus d’Hugh Laurie, on pourra ainsi y entendre Brian May (Queen), Jack Black ( Rock Academy , Soyez sympa, rembobinez ), Justin Hawkins ( The Darkness ), Steve Vai et des chansons écrites par Kara Dioguardi (juge d’American Idol).

Sortie prévue le 19 avril prochain.

Source: Première.fr