On the occasion of 20 years of Dr HouseDavid Shore, the creator of the series, gave a long interview to the media Entertainment Weekly during which he returned to the doctor’s obsession with this chronic autoimmune disease.
Dr House made its mark on the small screen in the 2000s. Available on Netflixthe medical series highlights Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), a brilliant and unconventional doctor, at the head of a team of interns at the Princeton-Plainsboro hospital in New Jersey. The head of America’s only diagnostic service, known for his cynicism and arrogance, is tasked with unraveling medical mysteries when other doctors have failed to find the cause of patients’ symptoms.
Dr House : his obsession with lupus finally explained
Fans of Dr House had certainly noticed: the eccentric doctor constantly thought about lupus when he examined his patients. An obsession that David Shore, creator and showrunner of the series, returned to the media EW. “I downloaded some materials early on in the series at the Writers Guild Foundation library, and I happened to be there, and someone was looking through them, so I said hello to this person. I looked at the docs and it was an early script, and there was a reference to lupusand I had written in the margin, my notes to the screenwriter, ‘We are already running out of diseases’, or something like that. Because apparently this was the second, third or fourth time we mentioned lupus.”he explained. “The point is that we were looking for diseases that could be serious, but could manifest in many different ways. And unfortunately for many – for us it was lucky, lupus was the perfect disease for us! It was a disease that manifested itself in many ways, and so the diagnosis could be wrong many times. So we kind of accepted that and we went that route.”
Dr House: a reunion between Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) and James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) is not on the agenda
During the same interview, David Shore answered the question that burns on the lips of all fans of Dr House : will we see a reunion between Gregory House and James Wilson? “Not really”assured the showrunner. “I wouldn’t say no, but these things are very, very difficult to do. You don’t want to waste anything […] But at the same time, yeah, we had fun with it, and I think it could be fun. But you have to have the right story, a great story that you’re really happy with, and the schedules have to line up, which is weirdly the hardest task.”
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