Got some juicy gossip from a friend in LA about this lot when I flew out there a couple of weeks ago.
Jennifer Morrison is nice enough, but it's a case of the lights are on but nobody's home. She's completely controlled by her management team, which is probably a good thing. Shame she was treated so badly when they kicked her off the show, but things got awkward on-set when she and Jesse split up, and he was more more popular with fans. Hugh Laurie was the one who vetoed the whole Cameron/House relationship after the first season. It wasn't that he disliked her at all, just that he wasn't comfortable with the age difference and he didn't feel there was any romantic chemistry there. (His attention was mostly elsewhere, but more on that later.)
I've heard the religious rumour regarding Jesse/Jennifer before. He's quite a devout Catholic, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Scientology crew get their claws into her eventually. She's gullible enough and hungry enough to stay famous.
Omar Epps and his wife are swingers. Other than that he's quite dull.
Robert Sean Leonard is a talented guy, but he's not exactly a joy to be around. He hated having more than a few scenes to work on, and didn't mind telling anyone who would listen that he was only there for the money. They tried to play up that he and Hugh were great friends for the press, but he wasn't really that close to anyone. I don't suppose it helped that he was a recovering alcoholic, and the crew as well as the lead were constantly drunk. (In fact there was a unfair dismissal lawsuit doing the rounds a couple of years ago from a member of the crew who refused to go to strip joints and get drunk like everybody else. Conveniently it disappeared.)
Lisa Edelstein is an interesting one. Obviously she calmed down in some areas from her Club Kid days (drugs and alcohol), but she was still fucking around like crazy while she was on the show. Usually much younger guys, who she could get rid of when she felt like it. Often she had several on the go at once. The woman's a Class A cougar. I also heard years ago that she nailed Josh Charles and Sorkin in her 'Sports Night' days. No idea if that's true, but my friend said her and Sorkin were all over each other when the 'House' and 'Studio 60' actors happened to be doing photo shoots at the same time. Like Leonard, she got the part through Bryan Singer.
The really interesting thing about her here is how close she and Hugh Laurie were from the get-go. She was the one they called in (even when she wasn't filming) when he was in such a depressive state, the crew couldn They more or less clicked from when they met in Vancouver to film the Pilot and leaned on each other professionally and emotionally right up until the shit hit the fan when they found out wacko fans had been hacking her email account and those of almost all the crew for years. (Before it came to light, stalkers were basically leaking her private details to the press. On at least one occasion she went to Laurie to help her kill the stuff that was being printed about her, which he did, including having people fired.) Anyway the loony fans sent the paps to the Malibu Beach where they were filming, and they ended up photographing them with their tongues down each other's throats. The only problem was that that wasn't part of the script, which had already been leaked earlier. As a result they had to backtrack like crazy, ditch the non-medical parts of the episode they'd filmed and find the easiest possible way to finish the House/Cuddy relationship without provoking further suspicions. As someone who'd been caught out having an affair by the press before, Laurie completely freaked out. The network didn't want their star caught up in a scandal either so they sent the orders to play down Cuddy's role, so they could ultimately lowball Edelstein when negotiations came about and force her out. As all this was going on, she'd thrown herself into a relationship with a separated artist that got serious quickly, and things on-set got all the more strained between her and Laurie.
