Hugh Laurie Dishes On Parenting From Across The Pond

Josh loposer — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:03:00 GMT

After 5 seasons of House, Hugh Laurie is starting to wonder what kind of toll his career and his superstitions have taken on his kids.

“I worry about parenting at this sort of distance, but they are being so generous and so cool about it that - I mean, it might be because they’re English, and they won’t reveal their psychological damage until they’re in their late forties.”

For the first few years of filming, Hugh was convinced that the show would get cancelled so he neglected to move the family Stateside. Then, he decided that as soon as he did make the decision to bring the family, it would somehow jinx the show.

“I’m just convinced that the day we put down a deposit on a house is the day that we get cancelled. It’s just inevitable.”

“In fact, the first season I was in a hotel for the first three months because I was so convinced that we were going to be gone. I didn’t even unpack. I had a half-empty suitcase. I thought it was going to be any day now.”

“I have an apartment now and they visit and I go back when I can. If we get Thanksgiving off in November, I got four days to go back. I go when I can. There’s just a lot of flying.”

Hugh and his wife Jo have three kids: Charlie, 20, Bill, 18, and Rebecca, 15 -- all of whom have now survived years of Hugh living in LA part time. At least the pay is pretty good ($350K per episode).

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House: Hugh Laurie Struggles With Depression

Karen — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:06:00 GMT

I love me some Dr. House. As it turns out though, his intense demeanor on-screen is very real. He agonizes over every scene, saying, “I’m too neurotic and too anal and too convinced that we’re going to fail to relax. Every show we do, every scene we shoot, is a disaster, I’m convinced of it. “I go home at the end of the day and my head is full of all the mistakes I’ve made. “I beat myself up about what I’ve stuffed up the day before,” he added. “I’m looking for things to go wrong. I’m not rejoicing or lying back and enjoying it.”

The overnight success of the show has 'drained him,' he admitted candidly in an interview with the Sydney Daily Telegraph. Laurie is being treated for "mild depression," and recently took an emergency trip home to London, where his wife, Jo, and their three children, Charlie, Bill and Rebecca, reside. At the time, a show rep said that “Hugh had family obligations in England to attend to, but production is continuing in his absence.”

That's unfortunate, though I'm glad to hear he's managing it. His depth as a character shines through, so it's too bad that he's feeling so poorly about it.

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Hugh Laurie Dishes On Parenting From Across The Pond

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