The Rx For Season Five of “House, MD”
By Scott Huver, Special to Hollywood.com
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Omar Epps (Dr. Eric Foreman)
On the mingling of House’s old and new team members:
Epps: Season Five is about that reconciliation and it all coming together. It’s how the new team, the old team, and those new relationships, so it’s how the new team works with House. It’s how the new team meets Cameron, Chase, and Foreman for advice. It’s that whole thing working itself out is what we’ll see in the fifth season.
On Foreman’s newfound assertiveness:
Epps: I think he puts his foot down in a sense. He’s not going to stand for it dagnabit. No, he sort of assets his power and it kind of happened twice. I think when they were still having the “Survivor” thing and Foreman had come back. There were more of the team and they tried to rebel. They ended up being wrong. House chastised them. I think once they narrowed the team down to the three guys, having had that experience – knowing that Foreman has been working with this guy for three years – you probably don’t want to piss him off that much. They need him as an ally possibly in the future. I think they know not to go but so far. At the same time that’s where House comes into play. House pushes them to forego that and get the best out of them. That’s why he pushes them to ignore Foreman, ignore everything you think is normal and go against that, because that’s how you are going to find the answer to the mystery of the medicine.