"Actually all I want to interview house. And get me." So says the actor, who created, perhaps the most controversial character in the history of cinema and the brightest hero of our time. Meeting with Hugh Laurie, a man and a man who doesn't see your character.
I'm waiting for him in the lobby of the Los Angeles hotel Chateau-Mormon" and order a cappuccino. On the couch next to carefree COO two beautiful young women - a typical product of the California glamour and total cult "fine! ". I sidelong look at them and only because of this neglect good manners notice how they both fell silent, concentrating on something is clearly essential for my shoulder. In one niche'm identifying actress Katie Holmes... And she recognized my future companion. Approaching us Hugh Laurie, and that's what caused enthusiastically silenced the spouse of Tom cruise...
And Lori at the word "success", it used winces in disgust. He is against reckless usage. He says: "I don't Have any success, I just got lucky". And again: "luckier Than I, so I scarier. The success they deserve and I won the lottery, even though the ticket is not bought".
But he does not look like a frightened man. Although in fairness I must say that not like the minion of fortune and a successful Pro. Lori not like even just the actor in him there is no imprint, which imposes a profession demanding samodemonstratsii. Hugh Laurie look like a man who is 51 years old, who raised three children, worked all my life and a lot of thought. He has a habit of thinking, although he hides it: like most men of our time, he would like to be a man of action, not thought.
From Lori clear and piercing blue eyes, and has an air of the deepest peace - this usually comes from large, high, monumental people. And Lori is a strange thing, I did not notice this on the "Dr. house" - seems to me almost giant: its height is not less than 190 cm, and it seems to be even higher because obviously asthenic physique... He was exquisitely polite, I would say courtly: before each of the innumerable cigarettes, lit during our conversation, he asked my permission to smoke. Another oddity: the smoke from his cigarette'm not annoying. As intonation, and tone of voice, pauses, and manners... Hugh Laurie as if it were made for him to be accepted. And there is nothing wrong in the fact that he has not yet learned to accept myself.
In different genres
Hugh Laurie never met one acting. For eight years he wrote a hilarious sketches for "a Bit of fry and Laurie", then released the spyware detective with a taste of parody "the Merchant of guns" (Phantom Press, 2008), which was read around the world, and now sparkling plays guitar and keyboards and sings in a rock band Band from TV. The group was organized by Greg Granberg from the TV series "Heroes" with the noble purpose of exploitation glory colleagues - without exception, all the income from the performances go to charity. The group has already produced a number of hits, one of which is American folk song Good Night Irene performed by Lori. Her plans album, performances are planned for the next two years... So it's unlikely we'll wait for the second book Lori - novel "Paper soldiers", which was supposed to come out three years ago, but the writer is still working on it.
- Psychologies: Your life has changed dramatically, when you were 45. To leave their native country to live away from their families - and to deal with such matters as the undeniable success and world fame...
- Hugh Laurie: Listen, this is my glory, there is something absurd, that's why I don't trust her... Not the validity, nemotivirovannoy - I am always alarmed. You know, I lived in this hotel almost six months, when was the casting of "house". All the other members of the cast, barely approved on the role, grabbed mortgages on new homes. And I actually did not realize that the house is the main character. I've read the script with the feeling that the chief should be Dr. Wilson, oncologist. People positive, friendly, attentive to patient, kind and sympathetic. So when the series it was decided to do and colleagues engaged in real estate, I very confidently said Jennifer Morrison (actress, partner Lori for the TV series "house MD". - CA. ed.): "Jenny, I'm telling you as an adult and father of three children - you do the unthinkable stupidity. We will close this season already". Jenny, a woman young and desperate, he replied something like: "Well, we live only once! " For me it was just a shock when the "house" was the ratings leader almost worldwide. I had the feeling that I spent six years in a coma, suddenly woke up and now I wanted to ask: "Elizabeth is still on the throne? We in Britain still left-hand traffic? We still pounds or already euros? " Actually, I'm still in some sense, are in this state,. The house is too unusual - and as the series, and how people. Too besylate for television series and too nigericin and uncomfortable for the hero. He can't be a pop star. And became. I contused this fact - my picture of the world based on suspicion, was subjected to deformation.
"The house as a series and people too unusual. He can't be a pop star. And became. I like shell-shocked by this fact".
- Suspicion?
"You know, I belong to that type of people for whom the glass is always half empty. I, however, do not particularly share this attitude is itself whining don't like and try his glass to fill, but the better things are going, the more suspicious I think the course of events. My credo: if all is well, it is only a matter of time when will deteriorate. "The unbearable lightness of being" is a wonderful name, brilliant phrasing and absolutely about me. Lightness of being - for me, something intolerable. Me forever tormented by the question: was it worthy of what is happening deep feelings or need to relate strongly to everything easier? Or, on the contrary, for a complete feeling of being ought to live it all seriously? In about reality, I have too many open questions, and the trend is that their number is not reduced. We, the British, you know, peculiar to some sentimentality, sensitivity. It is this sensitivity and made many of us cynics. Self-defense, protection of one's own feelings, from the painful impact on our thin in the skin... I'm teetering over the void - depression, trying to keep the sensitivity and not to fall into cynicism. And realize that in fact, my depression-fetched: I don't do anything that could act overwhelmingly. My life is easy - have you noticed that I'm not a miner? Yes, I wasn't an actor I've never studied this profession and how long did it on "kapustenko" level. Even our Steve (Stephen fry - the famous British actor and novelist, friend Lori. - CA. ed.) super-successful long show of fry and Laurie on Bi-bi-si was something of a continuation of our not so much theatre as a theatrical activity in Cambridge. May be, this is associated with my depression - I'm not ready to side effects of the profession. Well, sort of fame. Alien me state.
"You really are prone to depression?
- Yes, I'm depressed type. It started before University and successfully continues despite the so-called career, fatherhood, supportive family, friends and shooting circumstances. For some reason I feel miserable... even Though on a rational level I know that I have to do this, there is no reason. But this state is a part of me. I can not complain about destiny. I have no rights. And that's... horrible! Antidepressants quite help, and I don't think they change the personality, we put on a sweater when it's cold, so it is logical to take the tablet when... very cold and homeless.
- Tried to find the reasons for your depression?
"Yes, and found, I think. I, apparently, not enough was never enough of a struggle. Purpose, passion, life. I stumbled, but I have never had these failures. I once changed a wife that has become publicly available, but adultery affected public, we will see, is very vulgar substitute for the genuine life of failure. Life did not feel me, that's what it is. Once I heard on the radio an interview with one of the famous British writer and politician, and the nature of the soldier and fighter. He then said that regretted only one thing - that he could not die in the war. I was struck by this thought - it spoke a General sense, the existential meaninglessness of existence. He lacked this "to die for" - how to enjoy the fruits of victory, for which others have died? What is our current freedom? What is my freedom, the freedom of people of my generation? Freedom to get ravioli in three nights?
That, in addition to tablets, helps you out of this state?
- Boxing helps. Children. And House. I recently started Boxing. Almost never with pear. Partner. It hurts, but you become a clot, the clot strength that feels no pain. I fight every morning. Really - when I can afford to get a black eye or a cut eyebrow. Often in the training mode. Because of the filming in the "house" in this box have to take breaks. But the house also helps. It is not affected by sociality, he's not chained to her, he is able to soar above all these canons of good behavior, political correctness, surface quantum. He is the negation of social gravity. I also wanted. But just go on the motorcycle. It is also a flight. Surrogate flight, of course. But like. I have the same children. I love them, they are important in my life. So don't ask me this dead-end, but the traditional question "What you have in common with the House? ". Something, perhaps, mother if I have no one else could love. But I got somebody. And this, incidentally, like happiness. But who said that the meaning of our existence in achieving happiness? I doubt.
"I seem to not have enough and always lacked fight. Purpose, passion, life. I stumbled, but I still was not real failures".
"But isn't this kind of doubt not you share with your character?
- I like it quite another. In "Star trek" (American TV series. - Approx. as amended) there is such an episode. Captain kirk is looking into open space through the hatch and says, "somewhere out there right now someone says the three most beautiful words in any language". Do you think he meant "I love you". But then the captain says: "Help me, please." Under the three most beautiful words he had in mind the request for assistance. And rights - there lies an absolute beauty, because it is a natural and noble contact of human beings. That's what I like about "the house" - there everywhere asking for help, they come from all heroes, and from the house, maybe more.
- If your version of happiness?
- Possible. But even more important to overcome, happiness test. On the 40th anniversary of my wife gave me a parachute jump. So I went to workout, and then had to jump. But on day X, when we rose in the air, it turned out that the wind was too strong and so the boobies, as we, the fans, can not jump. We came back to earth. Interesting detail: the women from our group were upset and all men - and I am no exception sighed with relief. But somehow we all ended up there to test themselves, to overcome. So you know about yourself if I really jump in anywhere, when at the height of this guy-the instructor will open the door and say, "Come on! " It turns out that I couldn't: then jump cancel, then settles, and then it was not before. And it turns out, I'm afraid of falling. Perhaps out of vanity. Maybe from a deficiency of vital energy. But all this together makes me conceited pessimist.
- In the idea of overcoming a sense of existence that sounds very British - aggressive, colonialists. Besides, you played the Bertie Wooster and other English aristocrats. So to what extent you are an Englishman, with all this national set: irony, snobbery, carefully concealed "heart of gold", the passion for conquest of new spaces, the desire to win, drive and blagotvoritelnosty?
- That is, the extent to which I characterized Anglicans? You know, I'm in something cute British football fans. As you know, the most persistent of all. Because they refute your myth about the Englishman, the colonizer in a pith helmet. I don't believe in national character in the modern world. I believe only in emphasis. In order to become a hundred per cent American House - with all his experience of historical and cultural disappointments, he still lives in the era of political correctness and post-kassaveti, I had to cheat... language.
"But you got a truly British education: Presbyterian ascetic values in the family, then school is a prestigious Eton, then Cambridge...
- I think the important thing. I grew up in the family physician and the athlete. My father was incredibly delicate, incredibly educated man, a doctor, exclusively devoted to their patients, a true athlete, he won the gold medal in the steam rowing at the Olympic games in London in 48-m. And I wanted to be like him and also rowing, quite seriously. Friend of my youth Emma Thompson here recently said, "Hey, I remember you then and could not believe my eyes - you were great". Yes, rowing - force sport. I was a huge. This is partly why me and Cambridge took sport uniforms impressed. But I wanted to be like his father and at the same time denied him and his tact, and his honesty. I was a bad teenager, sort of nasty teenager... But we are all doomed to become aware of himself only a degraded version of their fathers... And that's what ended: pretending to be a doctor House, I earn ten times more than earned if he were alive. Journalists ask, do not mind if me, that the father died before "house". No, sorry - maybe I'd be ashamed to sham. But I am sorry that father is not alive. I never came to terms with his death, I miss him and his delicacy, and purity, and devotion. Shortly before his death I went to the USA, to appear in "Stuart little", it seems. I knew that he was not feeling well, but decided not to go to him and not to say goodbye detail. And did it quite deliberately: I don't like it... to let go, didn't want to give him permission to leave. He had to "hang" it is to meet me. And I don't really said goodbye. Now regret it. But it is not excluded that would have done the same thing if the situation was repeated.
"Who said that the meaning of our existence is to achieve happiness? Personally I doubt it".
- Do you think that should be left unfinished business? In life there is a sense in open finals?
Life itself leaves open finals. For me the obvious example - my mother. She was a woman, suffering from mood swings, strange - for example, in my opinion, the first in Europe began to really realize "green" ideas: collected paper for recycling by neighbors and passed... She has pre-sirale the idea that one must live for the sake of happiness, which should certainly arrive. She could not stand the word "comfort". She was hostile to sentimentality, to displays of affection, tears just hated. In response to our children's tears could say, "Dampness not rozvody! " We had a strange relationship: I thought it too much of me is waiting to see in me something that I can never meet. And I only did that broke the image of the ideal self: the school lied to seriously learn to play the piano refused. Became an actor self-taught, and not a doctor like my father was, as she wanted... Our relationship was cloudless, and it seemed to me, in General I was disappointed. But after the death of her brother told me that I, as it turns out, was the mother's favorite, she was proud of my theatrical experiences... But its gone, I have no one to say what I want. The final remained open.
- Moving to the United States did not make you less of a pessimist? After all, it is generally accepted that America is a country of optimists-inestrosa.
"Listen, when I closed the door behind him in England, I go to his fortress. In solid stone receptacle of life basics. And when I Bang the door in the house in Los Angeles, shake the walls! Here are all insecure, all temporarily, no one thinks about constancy. This build, but not stuck, it was convenient now. In General I like this American principle of life - fast & easy (fast and easy. - Approx. as amended). Nothing to tell the world about yourself as something timeless!
But how, with a tendency to depression, you so many years played in comedies and themselves wrote scripts of comedies and sketches, you have made people laugh?
Why, I'm just a depressive type, but not a misanthrope. I like the people. And they know about it - none of me not to say bad words. So bad I'm talking about himself.
1959 In Oxford (UK) in the family of Reynolds and Patricia Lori, a doctor and a homemaker, was born the youngest of their four children - son of Hugh.
1978 Arrives at the Department of anthropology and archaeology Selwyn College, University of Cambridge; joined the University theatrical society "Cambridge footlights" (Cambridge Footlights, where he meets with his activists, future actors Emma Thompson, Stephen fry, Robbie Coltrane; experiencing romantic passion Thompson.
1982 Together with Thompson, fry and Coltrane creates Comedy series TV shows Alfresco British TV, enjoying success; starts to cooperate with TV (now on account Lori more than 40 roles in TV shows and TV series).
1985 First film role in "Restless heart" Fred Sepesi.
1987 On channel Bi-bi-si starts out Comedy sketch show "a Bit of fry and Laurie" (A Bit of Fry & Laurie), which will remain in the broadcast record 9 years; literary basis it is created mainly by the performers; marries Joe Greene, theatre administrator.
1988 Birth of the first child, Charles, followed by William (1991) and Rebecca (1993).
1990-1993 the TV Series "Jeeves and Wooster" by the works of P. G. Woodhouse.
1996 Debut in Hollywood in the movie "101 Dalmatians" by Steven Hereka; publishes the novel "the Merchant of guns".
1999 "Stuart Little" Rob Minkoff
2004 Episode of Fox's "house M.D.", which brings Lori worldwide fame.
2005 Nominated for an Emmy award for her role in "Dr. house" (followed by another four nominations and a Golden globe in 2006 and 2007);
2008 street Kings" David Eyre.
2009 Voices the role of Dr. Cockroach in the animated film "Monsters vs aliens" Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon;
2010 as the Director removes the 16th series of the 6th season of "house M.D" "Quarantine" (Lockdown); in Russia in October on channel "Home" begins the demonstration of the 6th season of the series "Dr. house", and in the U.S. in September started the 7th season.
Filmography Hugh Laurie
Source:
Psychologies
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