20Q: Hugh Laurie

February, 2006

20Q: Hugh LaurieQ1[Q] Playboy: Much has been made in the press of you, an English actor, doing an American accent so well on the medical drama House. Turn the tables: What execrable and painfully comedic American attempts at English accents do you remember?[A] Laurie: I suppose at the top of every Englishman's list would be Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. That would have to be construed as a virtual act of war. I think every Englishman assumed that the only justification for hiring someone that u...