HOUSE: Lisa Edelstein and Greg Yaitanes Preview ‘Bombshells’

In tonight’s brand new episode of HOUSE, Cuddy is the patient of the week and her illness leads to a series of genre-based dreams. It’s a change for the show which is fairly consistent in how they handle cases, but on a conference call last week with reporters, Lisa Edelstein (Cuddy) and director Greg Yaitanes said they appreciated the change of pace.

“It was great to be in different costumes,” Edelstein laughed. “We had a lot of fun doing the different styles that we did. I’ve been on the show for a long time, so it was like having a week off and just playing around!”

“Lisa channels a mean Robert Redford,” Yaitanes added. “It was actually great to see how much Hugh [Laurie (House)] and Lisa, especially, dove into these different genres. They got to do five different movies all within one week.”

However, one of the most complicated genres the show tackled was a Mia Micheals-choreographed dance routine.

“I was a fan of [SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE] and had met Mia a couple months prior to getting the script to this episode,” Yaitanes explained. “The second I had read the script, which basically said House and Cuddy sing a HOUSE-ian version of ‘Get Happy,’ and there was a couple of story points that happened within that dance sequence, I texted Mia to see if she was going to be around and available. She was, and we made a deal.”

“We didn’t have so many rehearsals, but they were long and involved and it was really fun,” Edelstein said. “I’m a big admirer of Mia Michaels, and I also watched that show religiously. So I was really excited.”

“It was like a Mia Michaels fan club here,” Yaitanes added. “I don’t think we’ve had anybody either on the show or around the office in which more people were lined up to want to meet her and talk to her, and it was everything you could imagine. She was fantastic. She really directed that sequence, and that was the thing we wanted. We basically stuck a straw in her head and sucked out what her idea was. She created that world that takes place in the choreography; worked on the costuming, set design. It’s like within the episode I directed, that these two and a half minutes were directed by Mia.”

Are you excited for “Bombshells”? Check out a behind-the-scenes video and a preview below!

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