Though Lisa Edelstein wrapped her
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storyline yet -- embarking on a romance with Hugh Laurie's dyspeptic doc --
things could have gone very differently for the actress.
Rather than commanding the halls of
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Lisa Cuddy, Edelstein almost wound up on Wisteria Lane when she auditioned for
the role of Lynette on "Desperate Housewives," a part that
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producers were making the offer to Huffman when Edelstein came in for her final
test.
"It was a bit embarrassing," says
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me in, and I literally walked in and they were on the phone talking
numbers."
She landed "House" a week
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Having been through 15 prior pilot
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sense for what shows would succeed. "You develop a skill for recognizing
three things: something you like on the page, something you think you'd like on
the
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be successful, and something you think is written well enough to become that show,"
she says.
But she also knows not to set her
expectations
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says. "You have to look at it in the long term but assume the short
term."
From the beginning, Edelstein was drawn to
the
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somewhat underused the first season of the show -- a common complaint made by
the show's fans. "I didn't feel my character was getting
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wanting more attention; it was about wanting to keep my job and make sure my
character stayed in the
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nervous."
Edelstein didn't want to come off as
"an
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she took it upon herself to come up with ideas for Cuddy, pondering Cuddy's
back
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Then the actor presented her ideas to the show's creator and producer, David
Shore. "It was great; he liked all my ideas," she says. "And I
realized it wasn't that they didn't care
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lot going on."
She points out that the first six episodes
of "
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ratings, until the show was put after the juggernaut that is "American
Idol." By that point, episode 14 was shooting. "He was trying to get
a show off the ground," Edelstein says. "But I
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were all on the same page, and it developed from there."
OPENING 'DOORS'
Edelstein, 44, says she knew she wanted to
be an
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... But I don't think my parents took me too seriously. They thought I would
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I can't think of anything worse; I don't even want to play a lawyer on
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At age 14 she had headshots done and
dropped
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the title."
