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Women under 50 generally don't lust after leading men with canes--and neither do television network executives. But British actor Hugh Laurie is about to start his second season upending such TV truisms as an infectious-diseases specialist--whose cleverness is matched only by his astonishing rudeness--on Fox's hit medical drama House, the No. 9 prime-time show among women this year. "Perfection is intensely annoying," says Laurie, who, as if to demonstrate, carries his prop cane in the wrong hand, according to the show's physical-therapist viewers. "Audiences were ready for a character who didn...
...brave girl; I want to see how brave she is when she hears she's going to die"). "Another actor would have posed as the mumbly, moody, acceptable antiauthority figure," says Robert Sean Leonard, whose character, oncologist Dr. James Wilson, is House's only real friend on the show. "Hugh plays House as a human being you're surprised to find you want to be around...
After watching hours of casting tapes for the pilot last year, House executive producer Bryan Singer refused to see any more British actors due to their imperfect American accents. "Luckily Bryan had no idea who Hugh was," says the show's creator David Shore, who played Laurie's audition tape, sent from a sandy, Namibian film shoot, for Singer. "Bryan said, 'That's what we want, a terrific American actor.'" Laurie could hardly be more British, having attended the University of Cambridge alongside cinema heavyweight Emma Thompson and preferring for the time being to keep his wife and three school...
...realize this show is kind of about House?'" Now that House has been nominated for five Emmys and Laurie has appeared on the cover of TV Guide as TV'S SEXIEST MAN, the button has been put away. "Nobody expected the outpouring of estrogen," says Shore, "least of all Hugh...
...female fandom can be chalked up to House's coveted time slot last season behind TV's No. 1 show American Idol, a luxury the House cast and crew won't enjoy this year. If they wanted to overlook that fact, their lead actor reminds them of it constantly. "Hugh is uncomfortable with everything," says Leonard. "He'll dismiss the Emmys, the ratings...