{"id":10181,"date":"2025-10-31T17:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=10181"},"modified":"2025-10-31T17:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:03:07","slug":"hugh-laurie-says-dad-would-have-hated-fake-version-of-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=10181","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Laurie says \u2018dad would have hated\u2019 \u2018fake version\u2019 of doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"89\" data-end=\"369\">Despite earning $700,000 per episode in <em data-start=\"129\" data-end=\"136\">House<\/em>\u2019s final season, Hugh Laurie once admitted he felt like a fraud. The actor regretted playing \u201ca fake version\u201d of a doctor instead of becoming a real one, as his father had hoped. \u201cDad would have hated the shortcut I took,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"371\" data-end=\"825\">Born in 1959, Laurie was the youngest son of Dr. William \u201cRan\u201d Laurie\u2014a Cambridge-educated physician, Olympic gold medalist, and a man who dreamed his son would follow in his footsteps. Hugh initially planned to do just that, studying at his father\u2019s alma mater, rowing competitively, and aiming for medical school. But discovering the Cambridge Footlights comedy troupe\u2014and meeting Emma Thompson and future collaborator Stephen Fry\u2014changed everything.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"827\" data-end=\"1230\">Through the \u201980s and \u201990s, Laurie built a career in British television with shows like <em data-start=\"914\" data-end=\"926\">Blackadder<\/em> and films including <em data-start=\"947\" data-end=\"970\">Sense and Sensibility<\/em> and <em data-start=\"975\" data-end=\"991\">101 Dalmatians<\/em>. In 2004, he landed his breakout role as Dr. Gregory House, the brilliant but tormented lead in <em data-start=\"1088\" data-end=\"1095\">House<\/em>. Dropping his British accent, Laurie earned Golden Globes and global fame\u2014but also battled depression and exhaustion during filming.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1232\" data-end=\"1548\">After <em data-start=\"1238\" data-end=\"1245\">House<\/em> ended in 2012, Laurie continued acting in <em data-start=\"1288\" data-end=\"1294\">Veep<\/em>, <em data-start=\"1296\" data-end=\"1310\">Tomorrowland<\/em>, and the series <em data-start=\"1327\" data-end=\"1335\">Chance<\/em>, once again playing a doctor. Yet success couldn\u2019t erase his guilt. \u201cMy father was a doctor, and I became a fake one,\u201d he reflected. \u201cI still have doctor fantasies\u2026 I took shortcuts. Dad would have hated that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite earning $700,000 per episode in House\u2019s final season, Hugh Laurie once admitted he felt like a fraud. The actor regretted playing \u201ca fake version\u201d of a doctor instead of becoming a real one, as his father had hoped. \u201cDad would have hated the shortcut I took,\u201d he said. Born in 1959, Laurie was the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=10181\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Hugh Laurie says \u2018dad would have hated\u2019 \u2018fake version\u2019 of doctor&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10183,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181\/revisions\/10183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}