Hugh Laurie has seen some things in his day. The man was a misanthropic genius who could diagnose rare diseases from a mile away for ten years. He then navigated the moral labyrinth of a high-end hotel arms deal in The Night Manager. And let’s not forget about playing a nuclear inspector on Apple TV’s spy thriller Tehran.
None of these roles, however, could quite prepare him for the most treacherous pitfall of the 21st century, which turns out to be posting an uninformed thing on the internet. And now, what started as a heartfelt tribute to a colleague has metastasized into a PR disaster. Primarily given said colleague’s personal beliefs.
