The Rx For Season Five of “House, MD”
By Scott Huver, Special to Hollywood.com
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Jesse Spencer (Dr. Robert Chase)
On exploring the Cameron-Chase romance:
Spencer: It hasn’t been a huge, in-depth kind of thing. I think they are going to go for a little bit more. Cameron was always the one who was unsure about the relationship. It was a role-reversal: Chase was very sure about it and wanted to be with her, and she wasn’t. So, that hasn’t really gone away. Normally, if there are problems in a relationship at the beginning, unless they are really solved, they tend to come back. That sort of comes back. It ends up with Cameron having to decide what she really wants. Everyone protects themselves in some sort of way in this show. The relationship is basically the way that we bring out these different parts of the characters.
On getting out from under House’s thumb:
Spencer: The idea of the same three doctors working under House, why would they be there? It’s a very difficult job. Why wouldn’t they move on somewhere else and do something to be successful in other fields. That way they don’t have to deal directly with this guy who is just nuts. He’s a genius and they’ve learned all the good stuff they can, but they have taken that somewhere else. They wouldn’t be where they are without him, so they respect him absolutely. But the idea that they would stay there, I think, wouldn’t happen. They would move on. In terms of where Chase goes, I’d like to see him move up the ranks in surgery. I think it’s a really good position for me, and it’s given me a little bit of a position of power, to say yea or nay. He didn’t really have that when he was working for House. He had to do what House said, but now I’m working for Cuddy. I have the power to say no to something if I think it’s not right. But also, Chase has always been a bit of a brown-noser, so he doesn’t mind taking the path of least resistance and doing it to please House.