Hugh Laurie Would "Hate It" if He Were Friends with His Character on House

House has launched Hugh Laurie into skyrocketing fame in America as he played Dr. Gregory House in the FOX hit series. But he really isn't into the idea of spending time with his character, as he thinks that experience not at all be enjoyable.

"If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road," Laurie said in a conversation with the Los Angeles Times earlier this month.

However, the actor fully recognizes the fact that the character's unpleasant personality and disregard for certain rules are what keeps viewers amused and wanting more of the show.

"As a real person, he wouldn’t last a minute… But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull… we don't always like morally good people, do we?" he added.

House debuted on American television screens in 2004 through the FOX network. Since then, viewers have been enthralled by the way Laurie has portrayed the cranky diagnostician. Dr. House, who is the Head of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital’s Diagnostic Medicine Department, is an arrogant and insensitive man who deals with his patients from all walks of life. Laurie was also successful in portraying his character's sense of humor, thus making Dr. House more likable and tolerable.

Hugh Laurie is already a prolific figure in the British entertainment industry and the show has given him the opportunity to discover how different things are in America.

"In Britain, the tradition involves creating a character that isn't like you. In America, there's more imagining, how I would react if this thing happened to me," he explained. "So often one gets cast for who you are rather than who you can become."

Laurie may be fragile in real life, but he stays unfazed whenever viewers criticize House's sometimes unrealistic scenarios.

"You can't win," he said. "The audience either finds it unrealistic that the doctors always solve the case or wretched when they don't."

In addition, he said that "It's easy to be thrown, to think of them as something to be outwitted. If you start to think of the audience as capricious, then they become something like a fat baby prince, unpleaseable. But just like actors need to like their character, they need to find a way in to respect their audience."

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