The two part season finale of House begins tonight, with House in a bus accident. Despite his own injuries, he's trying to find another injured party. Perhaps the only clues to this mystery are in House's own head. Even his boss, Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), shows up in his imagination.
Lisa Edelstain Discusses the House Season Finale
"It is very interesting what happens in the first half of the finale in terms of learning about how House sees people and kind of getting the world from his point of view directly," said Edelstein. "He’s suffering from a brain injury, so he’s trying to remember what he saw before this accident, and in doing so, he’s using the people around him in his imagination to kind of help him dig through his memory and bring things up. So when Cuddy enters into that fantasy, he decides he might as well have her strip, so we’ll see what happens."
Even though it is not real, Edelstein still had to learn to pole dance to play the scenes in House's head. "I called Sheila Kelley, who has a company called S Factor. She’s actually the wife of Richard Schiff, who I’ve worked with a bunch of times on The West Wing and on Relativity. She did a movie a long time ago about strippers and realized that stripping was a great way to stay in shape and also a great way for women to kind of explore their sexual power. And so I went to her, and she helped me choreograph this routine. It was a very interesting experience."
It was indeed good exercise. "I didn’t really need it for the exercise because I would show up there having just done two hours of yoga, but in terms of learning about how to be sexy without doing it for somebody else, I think that’s the trick is that you stand within your own skin and your own power and you do it for your own enjoyment."
Back in the real world, the hospital administration and House's medical team have to contend with House's injuries as well as his mystery. "That’s really interesting because he ends up risking his own life in order to access his own mind, and none of the other people can do what he does, so they’re all willing to kind of participate in that risk. Holding their breath for a minute and waiting to see if it works. I mean, for a long time, nobody really knows to what extent he’s risking his own life, but even when it becomes apparent, it still goes on."
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