Is anyone able to translate this? I tried online translation but doesn't work for idioms! http://www.tvmag.com/programme-tv/article/s%C3%A9rie/52047/hugh-laurie-%C2%ABhouse-me-scandalise%C2%BB.html

I'm working on it! I'll post it here as soon as I'm done. :) ETA: Done! Here it is. English is not my first language so some of Hugh's wit probably got lost in translation... :oops: It’s a Saturday afternoon. It’s tea time, to be more precise. Hugh Laurie, a.k.a. Dr Gregory House accepted to give us an almost unhoped-for interview. Courteous, elegant, delicate, the British actor talks about House M.D., the film he’s currently shooting near New York, his future, his affections. TV Mag: Last year you talked about how pleasurable it was to work in the US, but you also said it was difficult to be far away from England… HL: After six years spent on the set of House, this isn’t a new life anymore. I miss England but it’s a little like I’ve come full circle. We’ve shot six seasons. We’ll start shooting Season 7 mid-June and there will probably be a season 8. And since I’m a big worrier – although I’m incapable of planning things ahead – I’ve already started wondering where my job will take me next. I’m not sure it will take me back to England… TVMag: Would you be ready to stay in Los Angeles? HL: I don’t see Los Angeles as a place to live; it’s more of a transit place. It’s a strange city: it’s unstable, anarchic beneath its clean appearance and it’s a precarious place in many respects, even for lucky people like me. TV Mag: But it still is the place to be when you’re an actor. HL: Absolutely, yes. Even if right now I’m in New Jersey to shoot a film… and there’s a large community of actors and producers here working for the theater, the TV or the cinema but they’re very different from the people you meet in L.A. TV Mag: What film are you shooting? HL: It’s called The Oranges. It’s a melodramatic comedy built around the story of two families living in a rich neighborhood near New York. PLOT SPOILER The father of family A –me- falls in love with the daughter of family B, Leighton Mester (Blair Waldorf in Gossip Girl). Naturally, it’s a disaster. PLOT SPOILER END TV Mag: We don’t see you in a lot of movies… but you must have been approached a lot. HL: I’m not really interested in playing in a lot of movies. I’m more interested in the quality of the story. The script for The Oranges was the best I’ve read in a long time. It’s also true for House: to me, it’s the most remarkably-written show on television. So I don’t really care whether I do westerns or dark comedies or science-fiction… TV Mag: Talking about House, are you still an enthusiast or are you sometimes depressed by the tormented nature of the character? HL: I’ll always have a strong affection for Gregory House. I’m intrigued by him, but also seduced, amused, saddened and shocked! I keep telling myself how incredibly lucky I am to be on that show. TV Mag: TF1 (French network) is currently showing season 5 and some of the episodes seem to be even more extreme than before. What do you think? HL: I simply think the writers used several aspects of the show: On the one hand the typical medical mysteries and on the other hand story arcs dealing with the relationships between the characters. David Shore, the creator of the show, is very much aware of how far you can go in improvisation and knows when it’s best to come back to more simplicity. This is like a melody, and I think it’s very clever. Also, House’s behavior is getting and worse and worse as the season ends… TV Mag: …up to the point he’s got to be institutionalized. HL: Absolutely. After a long struggle trying to find salvation, but it’s not that easy. TV Mag: Don’t you think he could have found some sort of solace with Lisa Cuddy, the hospital administrator? She’s visibly attracted to him. HL: Dramas exist to show moral wounds. If you heal those wounds, there’s no more drama and no more House. TV Mag: You’ve directed an episode of Season 6. Was it a sudden envy? HL: The producers approached me. They probably couldn’t stand my meddling and my constant commentaries on everything anymore. (laughs) I can’t help it! TV Mag: Is it your first experience behind the camera? HL: I had directed 2 or 3 things in England but never in the U.S. You must be able to handle the technical aspects, to direct the actors (who are people I know perfectly well, and that tend to make things even more difficult) (laughs), but you must also be able to tell a story and to act in it! It was very difficult and unlike the usual directors, I didn’t have time to prepare a lot. But it was also fascinating. TV Mag: Did you like the result? HL: It could have been a lot better. TV Mag: You’re just saying that because you’re a well-educated Englishman. HL: No, I’m saying that because I’m honest. (laughs) TV Mag: Do you still have time to play music, to finish your novel or to ride your motorcycle? HL: I don’t have a lot of time unfortunately… actually that’s not true. I’ve just finished recording a song for Meat Loaf’s new album. We were in a recording studio where Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Dean Martin had played. It was incredible! As for the bike, it’s still my main means of transport. As a matter of fact, I’d really like to rent one this afternoon and go for a ride through the New Jersey Hills: they remind me of England… and I think it’s going to rain. Mod Note: While the information is already out there, many of our posters have asked that no plot spoilers for The Oranges be revealed here. As a result, I've whited out the information above. Thanks so much for the great translation!

Thank you so much! You did a great job. He obviously missed his bike in New Jersey. :)

Thanks for the translation. I get the feeling Hugh is done after 8 seasons with House, which goes along with my feeling that he won't resign after his contract is up. Contrary to what he previously implied, it doesn't sound like his heart is in LA as far as living. I guess as long as he has work there, it makes sense but it wouldn't be because he likes it there.

Thanks! That was a fun read. And welcome!

Thanks for the translation Rain69 HL answered one question I had in mind, that he is signed through season 8. I couldn't remember if it was 7 or 8. I'm not surprised he sounded a bit different this time in his comments about LA. We all change our minds like that. Ask me the same question on different days and you're liable to get different answers. I suppose HL will go wherever his work takes him, and LA is much more likely than London, but he may wind up spending a lot of time elsewhere. I was slightly puzzled by Hugh's answer to the question about getting lots of movie offers, since I would think he does get lots of offers. I understand about him only choosing good scripts, but I do wonder about the truth of how many offers he gets, since it may be an indicator of how much work he'll get after House ends. In the back of mind I still worry that we won't see much of him after the show ends.

The man is a workaholic. He certainly didn't need the money for the Schwepps or the cable-TV commercials but that's how he spent part of his off time. Producers know what his limited availability for shooting is right now -- May and June is basically it. I think he's not getting a lot of offers like Street Kings. He was a supporting player so they'd shoot based on Keanu Reeve's schedule, not his. But things like The Oranges, which must have scheduled the shoot for when he and Leighton M. were available are probably coming in. We all have to make sure The Oranges has a good opening weekend. If it does, he'll be considered bankable and get tons of offers.

Hee, Hee! Someone took all the repetitive HL talk show Q&As and strung them all together.

What do people think of what someone posted on The End of The Process about Hugh Laurie possibly tiring of the role of House? I'm wondering if that's part of why he's more in the background, and why in some ways he's a tad more generic.* *Part of this may be that shows like "House", with a maverick main character who is extremely quirky and basically alone, have grown like weeds on television. The writing tends to be crap, but "House" and "Monk" paved the way, IMHO. Hee, Hee! Someone took all the repetitive HL talk show Q&As and strung them all together. Brilliant! I've often wondered during interviews how he keeps his head from exploding at the same Q&As over and over. He needs a replacement for that window metaphor

I think that "Hugh is tired of the role" seems to have become some kind of a fandom meme, and one that I, personally, don't buy into. If anything, Hugh has become more involved with the show and the character. He's taking the executive producer part very seriously, getting involved in directing, in promotions, etc. In an interview, director Juan Jose Campanella talked about how when House had his spell of getting involved in cooking that Hugh himself did some study of cooking so that he could everything right in that scene. He seems to be more and more interested in exploring these other layers of the character. That doesn't sound like "tired of the role" to me at all.

I see your point, but I wish they would get in new writers. Maybe "Knight Fall" was a mess, but it was an entertaining mess.

Or maybe we just don't see where they're going yet. There was plenty in season 5 that didn't make sense until after the finale.

There's a cool picture of Hugh on the Oranges site, holding a gun and looking all Thomas Lang like. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5797485&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=378557091062&id=506671211