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Omar Epps on House
By Fred Topel | Image property of Fox.
House
Epps on Treating House
"Not to give it away, but there's something very, very similar to that this year where it's not about that," said Epps. "It's about the characters for the rest of that episode."
Otherwise, he disagrees with my assessment. "See, technically, that's not necessarily true. Sometimes our first guess is right. It's just tracking to how you would have come up with that, which is pretty interesting. The writers are very clever."
A recent episode showed Foreman trying to be a nicer version of House. Though he saved his patient, he lost his job. "Foreman at the beginning of this season, he's off running his own department at a different hospital. What happens is he's back against the wall to have to return Plainsborough so he grudgingly takes that route, ends up back at the hospital."
In the meantime, Epps has been enjoying a lighter schedule. "Some nice bonus time. Few days here, few days there. Pretty cool."
Soon, Foreman will meet the new candidates for House's fellowship, and find more new wings of the hospital in which to work. "They've sort of formed their own little bond so they're very supportive of each other. The hospital's just bigger. Our first year, we had one stage and then we had a swing set stage. Now we have two huge stages and still have a swing set stage. We're going on location. They've build a second floor in the hospital, the lecture hall. That hospital's just getting bigger."
With the changes to the formula this year, Epps only sees Foreman getting deeper. "It's been great. Not to sound redundant, but my security comes from the writers. I think we have some of the best writers in television, if not the best. They've written, selfishly for Foreman, they've kept it interesting for me as an actor. One of the fears being an actor, for anything but especially coming from film, is just getting stuck doing the same thing, the repetition of one formula. Even in its third year, for them to dice it up right now is very, very exciting. It's like the first season, creatively feels like that. So it's hard. It's a lot of work."
House airs Tuesday nights on Fox.
Fred Topel
Sources: Image property of Fox.
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