Sitting pretty in Silver Lake

Tonight, “House” goes on after the Super Bowl on Fox -- and its strike-forced season finale airs Tuesday. Earlier this week, we caught up with the show’s Dr. Lisa Cuddy -- Lisa Edelstein in real life. She was in the car on the way to LAX at dawn, leaving for a month on a Lifetime film in Hawaii. Fun fact: In 1986, she was the queen of the New York City club-kid set.

Your parents were just in town!

My parents left yesterday. They were going on a cruise with some friends. They were very excited. My father gets seasick; my mother’s trying to kill my father! They’re having their 50th wedding anniversary this year if she doesn’t succeed.

Do they still live in New Jersey?

No! They live part time in Texas and in the Berkshires in New York.

That’s gorgeous.

My sister works for NASA, and they want to be around the grandchildren. And since I haven’t been breeding at all, they chose Texas.

Whoa, what does she do?

She’s just switching up right now, but she was designing pieces of the space station and the space shuttle. She’s worked in various positions dealing with windows and floors and the connector to the space station.

That’s intimidating.

Nah! It’s all math.

Did you guys complete shooting on the season?

No -- only halfway through. Only 12 out of 24. Yeah, it’s so sad. I hope we go back soon. I hope they can come to a reasonable conclusion to the strike.

It’s such a shame narratively, among other things.

You know, I can’t complain. The strike had to happen. . . . I’ve really been in a good position where I don’t have to worry about paying my bills and I have a job waiting at the end. That’s very different than the position other people are in. It’s really devastating.

It’s amazing to have issues of fair pay and practice being discussed in our lifetime.

I know! But it really is about conglomerates. It’s about the fact that conglomerates have taken over the country. And I think with respect to a lot of other business as well, it’s a fight for our workers. There have to be better laws about who can own what. Individual companies own too many things. You have a strike -- but the companies you’re striking against own the news! And the newspapers. It’s hard to find real information.

I’m in my car, parked on St. Mark’s Place right now -- your old stomping grounds!

You’re in my current stomping grounds. I still stomp there. I used to live more like, NoHo they call it now. What did they call it back then? Now I live part time in the East Village.

It’s different, isn’t it?

Oh, it’s so different. I mean in some way, it’s nice when a neighborhood cleans up a little bit, but in another sense, you lose something, a possibility of having young, creative people live in a place because they can afford to. A certain edge disappears. But the projects are still there!

And what neighborhood are you in in Los Angeles?

Silver Lake! It’s the same neighborhood, essentially. A lot of young people and young designers and mixed economics -- it’s just a culturally rich place. I need to be in places like that or I don’t feel comfortable. If any area feels too homogenous, it doesn’t feel alive to me.

Since you’re not breeding, you’re not leaving for Montclair, or Chatsworth?

Oh, God. Not unless I’m in shackles.