I was flipping through the Fall 2007 issue of
Bitch magazine (it's a zine featuring a feminist response to pop culture) and got a real surprise! There is a short interview with Lisa Edelstein by Bitch co-founder Andi Zeisler.
I went to the website but there isn't a link. Bitch is always a great read and I urge people to seek it out. However, I'll quote a short bit that had to do with the show:
Bitch: Cuddy is lately portrayed as something of a cliche - the successful woman who realizes maybe too late that she wants a family and starts to scramble to make it happen at any cost. How do you feel about that aspect of the character having become so prominent?
LE: It's become so prominent in her life because it's prominent in my own life. I'm at that age, and when I got the job, I said "If this show lasts several years, it's possible that I'm going to want to get pregnant." So that's been part of the storyline, having Lisa trying to get pregnant so that if I get pregnant, it's in there. Even though it's a cliche, it's based in reality. She's running a huge hospital, and I don't think (wanting to have a child) has gotten in her way. It's been an opportunity for the writers to explore how work and your personal life collide.
Every character you play, you bring your own to. With Cuddy, I really enjoy how smart she is - she's responsible for so much, and she's really good at it, even though she screws up from time to time.
Andi & Lisa also discuss her other TV roles and her AIDS activism.
Again, Bitch is a great read - check it out.
Cross-posted to Cuddy & Media threads
ETA: I forgot to share one other funny part of the interview. In the intro this comment is made:
But for the past few years she's been far more memorable as acid-tongued, hard-assed Dean of Medicine Lisa Cuddy on House, inspiring pangs of jealousy in those of us who can only dream of essaying sexual indifference toward Hugh Laurie.
That gave me the giggles something fierce. :-)
