Comments on: Hugh Laurie admits trying Vicodin to get into character

By: hellcat

hellcat — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:58:50 +0000

Oh, wow. I’m sorry about your husband, that must be really rough. Best wishes.

By: headache

headache — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:27:44 +0000

hellcat, I would probably feel different if the man wasn’t stuggling with depression or if I didn’t have a deployed husband I would move with in a heartbeat if I was allowed to so I concede the point.

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By: hellcat

hellcat — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:18:53 +0000

I didn’t think it was his wife that didn’t want to move anyway, I thought it was that he was worried they would uproot the whole family and then the show would get cancelled or something. Maybe I need to read the article again. Either way, I can see both sides of the argument. She might have a job she loves, which would mean that she was NOT living her “entire life for her children” so much as making them deal with it so that both parents could make their jobs work, headache - exactly what you wanted her to do, right? On the other hand, I do see your point about wanting to keep your family together, and if he’s making more money, then why not just move? I just don’t like judging the choices that other people have made for their families, for the most part.

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By: geronimo

geronimo — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:34:16 +0000

I’m with miss luigi. He’s always going to be Prince George, Bertie Wooster and a host of characters from A Little Bit of Fry & Laurie. I have the boxed set of house and just can’t get into it. I keep expecting either Baldrick or Stephen Fry to appear.

Re cod Irish accents, mairead, the worst one ever is Tom Cruise in Far & Away. I actually found Brad Pitt’s gypsy/traveller hybrid in Snatch really funny.

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By: RC

RC — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:19:51 +0000

Mairead - agreed about the Irish accents. my own fake Irish is not great, but decent enough to fool fellow Americans into buying me a drink (learned that trick from a gentleman from, i believe, Tralee. works every time) or to escape people with clipboards on the street.
a lot of British actors have so-so American accents when they go for generic (stephen fry’s a good example). Laurie has a real ear for accents though, and he’s doing a very specific accent that only sounds generic because it’s what every newscaster wants to have. especially impressive with jesse spencer twanging his way around the set…

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By: Miss Luigi

Miss Luigi — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:12:23 +0000

I love his upperclass twit characters (Bertie Wooster, Prince George). I don’t like House as a result.

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By: Loob

Loob — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:01:57 +0000

Mairead said: “…the lovely Mr. Laurie (who will always be Bertie Wooster to me)”

I bought Jeeves and Wooster on dvd for my father in law! It’s good to know he’s bound to love it.

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By: headache

headache — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:58:21 +0000

Meh, kids are flexible. Yeah moving sucks, this military brat knows it well but it sucks even more when daddy is struggling with depression half a world away and you never get to see him.

I guess I’m just not one of those mothers who lives my entire life for my kids and I didn’t get married to raise my children alone.

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By: Mairead

Mairead — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:47:25 +0000

Actually on the subject of the lovely Mr. Laurie (who will always be Bertie Wooster to me ) - do ye mind if I just ask the Americans on the board what they think of foreign actors coming over and doing generic American accents? Do they usually get it right, or is it absolutely cringeworthy?

Being Irish, I find that in films or programmes Irish accents sound desperately fake - but when many British or Americans do the “Oirish” accent it makes me want to pull all their hair out.
(the only American actors who managed a decent Irish accent were Jared Leto, Kate Hudson and Johnny Depp in Chocolate. Brad Pitt should be bitch-slapped from here to the North Pole if he dares trying a settled Irish or traveller accent again).

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By: Mairead

Mairead — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:39:22 +0000

Headache, I generally agree with you on almost everything, but in this case I am completely with Mary Ann and Bodhi on this one. The children grew up in England; their friends, family and schools are all there.

I cannot for the life of me see how his wife - who may be able to have a career in LA, but has built it up steadily in Britain - is the evil one in not wanting to uproot her family, taking the ground from beneath their feet and possibly winding up like some of those other celeb-spawn basket cases. It sounds like the daughter is already aching to meet the hep-crowd in LA (Paris LiLo and the like).
(Headache, I’m sure you already know this, I’m not “attacking you”, but in the tradition of a good spirited debate, I have to take the opposing view :-)… *ON GUARD*

And Bodhi hit the nail on the head where she said that he doesn’t sound like he particularly likes LA either.

But either way, I am absolutely delighted that Hugh is doing well, and able to show off his serious acting ability, as opposed to being typecast as a bumbling comedy character or the less obviously intelligent partner to Stephen Fry, which had happened prior to “House”

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