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HOUSE creator David Shore talks Huddy, 13 and Cameron
‘House‘ creator David Shore had a lot to share about Season 7 when Fancast spoke to him at Fox’s All-Star Party.
For one, Shore revealed that the new season picks up “basically right after” House and Cuddy (played by Hugh Laurie and Lisa Edelstein) finally and passionately clinched in the May finale. As such, he says that viewers will “more or less” see things ‘tween the two heat up even further during the September 20 season opener.
The writers made that choice because “we want to explore the start of that relationship” rather than gloss over it, Shore says.
But have no fear – long-elusive love won’t mellow the snarkiest doctor on TV. “House is still the bastard he’s always been,” Shore assures fans in the red-carpet video found here:
By now we’re all familiar with that photo of House and Cuddy (Hugh Laurie and Lisa Edelstein) cozying it up on the beach, taken earlier this summer, but House creator and executive producer David Shore says we shouldn’t read too much into the image. “That picture was so deceptive. It’s not going to be lovey-dovey, happily ever after,” says Shore. “I think the picture is taken between takes, of the two of them relaxing.”
And though House and Cuddy are making a go of it, rest assured, House is still House. “[The relationship] is not sweet. House doesn’t suddenly become happy and domesticated,” says Shore. “We do it in a very House-like way. He’s still that character that people love and Cuddy is still Cuddy. And they’re trying to make a go of it as they are.”
Shore and his fellow writers felt they really had no option but to explore a relationship between the two characters. “We’d done the dance long enough,” says Shore. “We had fun dancing around it, we had fun playing with the sexual tension, but it was time to move on and explore the actual relationship. So we’re having fun with that.”
“It’s pretty bold,” adds Edelstein. “But I really trust David in the way he’s steered the ship so far. It doesn’t have to work, but it has to be done. And I think they really love each other. I just don’t know if they’re capable of maintaining it.”
As House counts down to its seventh season premiere this fall, burning questions loom: Is Thirteen ever coming back? Will Amber Tamblyn’s new MD be sticking around full-time? Will the Huddy experiment succeed or fail? And is this the season the show finally gets a new opening title sequence? Luckily, not only was series creator David Shore on hand at Fox’s press tour shindig last night, but he was in a very chatty mood.
This may not entirely appease House fans frustrated by Cameron’s abrupt exit earlier this season, but it’s bound to help: Jennifer Morrison’s imminent comeback, she hints, should give her character, and viewers, closure.
“The audience is going to get the information they were looking for,” says the actress, who declined to confirm the exact length or timing of her return except to tease that it occurs during a ”really smart episode.”
As for the circumstances surrounding her surprising departure, Morrison is more forthcoming, eager to make it clear that the decision to leave was not hers. “I love the show, and I love [Cameron],” she insists. “Under no circumstances would I ever decide on my own to leave.”
So what happened? She recounts: Executive producers David Shore and Katie Jacobs “came to me as we were leading up to episode 8 — which is the episode where I left — and said, ‘This is where we see the show creatively going, and [we're writing you out].’ And they very generously said, ‘We wanted to let you know so you knew you were available for other things, should they be offered.’ As far as I knew, there was nothing more.”
Opportunity ended up knocking on Morrison’s door soon after: She was cast in the Broadway revival of The Miracle Worker. And “right around the same time, [Shore and Jacobs] had an idea to [bring] some resolution to Cameron’s storyline. So very generously as well, the play has accommodated my missing some rehearsal time to do the show.”
And what about the future beyond the play, which will run at least through the spring? Although Morrison remains contractually bound to House next season, “I don’t believe that they have plans to pick up my option,” she confesses. “That does not mean I won’t be back for a handful of episodes, but it does mean I probably will not be a series regular next season.”
Naturally, looking back on her six-year run is bittersweet for her. But more sweet than bitter, it seems. “[Working on House has] been the most incredible blessing I could ever imagine,” she says. It’s been the most incredible people to work with and the most incredible character. But I have to respect the producers’ ideas of where the story is going.”
