Hugh Laurie Experimented With Vicodin For House Role

People:

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."

Laurie, renown as a perfectionist, says he's unhappy with his Golden Globe-winning performance of the grumpy medic -- especially his American accent -- and isn't sure how much longer the series will continue.

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Comments

[uglybetty]

House

[Duncan77]

Hugh, stop working for Fox and come back to Britain (at least then you will have to drop that atrocious American accent). Another series of "A little bit of Fry and Laurie" is well over due.

[jetdog]

The show is horrible, his acting is overrated at best and Fox is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to TV.

[PDBudd]

This is OLD NEWS. I read it a year or two ago on other sites.
What's the big deal that he has the experience of a drug his character is addicted to?
Isn't anything else happening in Entertainment land?

[grailknight]

I enjoy House, but I think it's losing its spark. I've read, perhaps in Huffpost, that Laurie is depressed working in Hollywood, away from his family. The character House is O'Reillyesque and that will soon beocme tiresome.

[nunzia]

That show, a Fox offering after all, flaunts some pretty right wing scripts, so no loss when it goes.

[cruisepuppy7452a]

Laurie is a great actor, a pro. Also one of the funniest British guys out there. Its not his problem the show won't go on, better for us. It means he has the chance to do humor again.

[cruisepuppy7452a]

Over the last 20 years, I was given lots of vicodin following surjury. Ya know what? Its highly over rated as a pain med. It didn't do shit after I was cut into 9 times in 4 years, didn't help pain for dental surjury, a broken hand, ankle shoulder, nose, fingers. , When I was given other scripts for it for refills, I tossed them, shredded them, never filled them. I probably could have made a fortune had I kept them, but I just don't see what the fuss is about that drug. When you are in pain, real pain, the only drugs that ever worked for me, were darvocet or morphine on a drip. They can keep the vicodin.

[Nutcase]

Perhaps you could be a bit more careful?

[ibsteve2u]

"and isn't sure how much longer the series will continue"?

Oh well...I feel guilty as hell whenever I watch anything on Fox, anyway...'tis the shame of helping to pay Bill O'Reilly's salary...

[Candace8383]

Love the show hate that its on Fox so i TIVO it and skip the ads ...not much but the best I can do

[middleoftheroad]

Good thing for him he was not cast in Trainspotting!