Did Lisa Edelstein get along with Hugh Laurie?

In fact, when Lisa appeared on Watch What Happens Live in 2014, she said that she hadn’t talked to Hugh since they worked on the show together. But she assured viewers that there was no beef between them, “just everybody’s separated.”

Why did Lisa Edelstein leave the show House?

During House MD season 7 episode “Bombshells,” Cuddy undergoes tests to find if she has cancer. Most of the actors’ contracts ended with House MD season 7, and the network wanted to cut down on costs by bringing them back with pay cuts. Lisa Edelstein refused and decided to leave the show instead.

How much does Lisa Edelstein make per episode?

Along with Epps, Edelstein had been asked to take a cut from her most recent salary of $175,000 an episode, but the offer was still pretty good, so she is walking away from more than $2 million.

What does Hugh Laurie take as pills?

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.

Why did the cast of House change?

Lisa Cuddy left the show after the season 7 finale in 2011. That’s because Lisa Edelstein’s contract was up that year—as were co-stars Omar Epps’ and Robert Sean Leonard’s. Fox wanted all three actors to take a pay cut, and while Epps and Leonard accepted the terms of their negotiations, Edelstein did not.

Why is House season 4 so short?

Season Finale The fourth season of House premiered on September 25, 2007 and ended on May 19, 2008. This season is the shortest one in the whole series due to the Writer Guild of America’s strike which stopped production of the series and instead of 24 episodes, 16 were finally produced.

What was House addicted to?

Vicodin
Hugh Laurie’s ‘House’: No Pain, No Gain For the past eight seasons, the English actor has played Dr. Gregory House on the Fox medical series. During that time, Laurie’s character has diagnosed dozens of patients suffering from rare ailments, while maintaining a serious addiction to Vicodin.

What did Hugh Laurie eat in house?

Hugh Laurie played Dr. Gregory House in Fox’s long-running medical dramedy “House M.D.” The character was supposed to be addicted to the painkiller Vicodin. During an interview on the talk show “Ellen,” she asked what he was taking and he said: “I honestly don’t know. I think it’s something to stop me from complaining.