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Entertainment Or Not ? British Accent Isn`t Hot

British actor Hugh Laurie, is telling the Entertainment Weekly magazine about his role in "House", the Fox medical drama, for which he had won a Golden Globe entertainment award. Playing in an American TV show, Hugh had to learn to speak with an American accent. The entertainment actor says that speaking like an American isn`t as easy as it sounds.

The 47-year-old actor tells the entertainment magazine: "I haven`t identified a single word that is pronounced the same in America as it is in England. And that can really take you out of the moment, having to constantly listen to yourself and check your accent. It makes it harder to immerse yourself in the scene. It`s as if you`re playing left-handed. Or like everyone else is playing with a tennis racket and you have a salmon. I moan about it a lot."

In the entertainment series, Laurie plays Dr. Gregory House, the sardonic doctor who heads a medical team specializing in the diagnosis of rare disorders at Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. House, whose leg has been crippled by a blood clot, walks with a cane, pops painkillers and has a continuous stubble. He doesn`t like wearing a white lab coat, and he`s testy with his patients and staff. However, House is a brilliant diagnostician. The actor says he could connect to the character straight from the start and to see right away what he is hiding behind his sarcasm. The third season of "House", premieres September 5, which will surely come as great new for the entertainment series fans.