The character of Lisa Cuddy wasn’t expected to disappear after House’s seventh season. In fact, Executive Producer David Shore told EW that he was planned on Cuddy’s alter-ego Lisa Edelstein to be back for more after they shot the drama’s finale.
As a result, Shore would have crafted a different season ender had he known her plans. (The actress, whose contract expired at the end of season 7, declined to renew her deal). ”I don’t know how exactly [he would have changed the finale],” Shore told EW during a special charity event for House Thursday that benefitted the Writers Guild Foundation. “I don’t what it would have been. It probably would have involved more closure on the character. I was really disappointed. I am still reeling from it but we just started meeting a few days ago like we always do this time of year to try to map out the first half of the next season and we are having some very frank discussions about what we are going to do.”
House scribe Peter Blake, who co-wrote the finale with Shore, said explaining Edelstein’s departure will end up being the easy part. “Weirdly for me, I think the harder question to answer is, what would we have done with Huddy if she was still on the show? I think both would have been hard although we all wish Lisa was still here,” Blake said. “The hardest part about her being gone is we lost an important character to write stories about. I think everyone know that the writers have nothing to do with her departure. It is a big deal because the Cuddy-House dynamic is one the reasons people watch the show. It was one of the driving forces of the show and one of the reasons it kept bubbling up.”
Source: Full Article @ EW
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