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Robert Sean Leonard Interview. *________*


Holy crap. I may have died and gone to heaven.

Robert Sean Leonard Interview.
from the chicago tribune

NOTE: These are the best snippets out of the interview, and my favourite lines are bolded. My inane ramblings are italicized.

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Chicago Tribune: So we won’t see the very special “House” episode where Dr. Wilson almost dies?

Robert Sean Leonard: “That might be how I get off the show.” [laughs]

CT: Well, you could die and come back as a ghost. Then it would be the “House Whisperer.”

RSL: “Yeah [laughs]. The hair makeup people were saying one day, ‘Oh, I love those scenes with you and Hugh, there should be more of that.’ And I’m like, ‘Shhh! Don’t say that!’

I’m the luckiest man in Hollywood. I work only with Hugh, pretty much, who’s great. And I work two days a week.

*keyboard smash* Thank you, RSL. You just gave 80% of the fandom RPS fodder for the next decade or so.

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CT: So in terms of the other stuff going on in your career, that’s going well, all the theater stuff?

RSL: “I’ve achieved everything I wanted to do. When I was growing up, I wanted to be Kevin Kline, Sam Waterston. I grew up watching the Public Theater and Shakespeare in the park and Marion Seldes. I mean, I may as well be gay.”

CT: I’m not entirely sure you’re not.

RSL: [laughs]

And he has a sense of humor, too. *______________*

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RSL is a not-so-closet Hugh fanboy. XD

CT: So it seems like Hugh Laurie is so disparaging of his own talents. But he’s so good as House.

RSL: “Some people ask me, ‘Oh, why does Wilson want to hang out with House so much?’ and I’m like, ‘You idiot.’ [laughs] House is designed to be attractive! He’s brilliant, he’s self-deprecating, he has a limp. But yeah, Hugh hates himself and he’s very funny about it. There’s no better combination in my book. Like Lewis Black.”

CT: And then he obviously hates when anyone calls him a sex symbol. You read his quotes when people ask him about that stuff and you can feel the embarrassment rising off the page.

RSL: “Yeah, he hates that stuff. And even more than the ‘sexy’ stuff, he hates the ‘you’re brilliant’ stuff. Of course there’s a part of him that likes him, there’s a part of all of us that likes that. [But him being hard on his performance], it’s not false vanity.

“I think Hugh does work he’s proud of and does work he thinks is good, I’m just not sure it’ll ever be this [show]. Having an accent… acting is letting go and forgetting yourself, it’s the opposite of ego. It’s flying away and getting away from yourself and forgetting. And when you’re doing an accent, it’s virtually impossible to do that.

“It’s hard when you're in a play, doing the same lines, the same way for eight months. Hugh learns 72 new lines a day and has to put an American accent on them. It really is an actor’s nightmare. I’ve done [with accents] Brian Friel plays, Martin Sherman plays, Tom Stoppard plays, and maybe five months into it you have a night where you kind of feel OK and kind of forget the accent and let go and let the scene happen. To have a strange accent in your mouth while playing a role, and then be judged for it, that’s hard stuff.

“And can I tell you, when you have dinner with Hugh Laurie [speaking in his real accent]… I miss that voice.”

CT: Yeah. He called me once directly for an interview. I was expecting the publicist to put him through, but it was just that voice on the phone. I was sort of thrown for a minute.

RSL: “As we know, I’m straight, but yeah, it’s like, homina homina homina.” [laughs]



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I don't think that last bit needed any explanations. *________________*

*goes off to soak her head* XDDD



Read the full interview here: http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2006/05/houseapalooza_p.html