Table of Contents
Foreword Hugh Laurie vii
Introduction: One Out of One-Three-One xvii
1 The Start Line: Creating the Show 1
2 What If Michael Caine Played House's Father? Writing House 15
Cameron Jennifer Morrison 31
3 Eight-Day Weeks: Making the Show, Part I 41
Chase Jesse Spencer 57
4 Fourteen-Hour Days: Making the Show, Part II 68
Foreman Omar Epps 90
5 City of Actors: The Casting Process 104
Thirteen Olivia Wilde 113
6 If It's Happened Once: The Odd Medicine of House 128
7 Inside Dave Matthews's Head: How to Fake a Medical Procedure 144
Taub Peter Jacobson 152
Kutner 163
8 Sets and Stages: Designing and Building House 167
9 East Coast, L. A.: The Look of House 180
Cuddy: Lisa Edelstein 189
10 Faking it for Real: Props and Special Effects 208
11 Making It On-Screen: Visual Effects and Editing 221
Wilson Robert Sean Leonard 229
12 Everybody Lies: The Dark Matter in the Universe, Part I 250
13 Questions Without Answers: The Dark Matter in the Universe, Part II 259
House Hugh Laurie 280
Conclusion 311
Appendix: The Episodes 319
Acknowledgments 323
