Sepideh Moafi on Learning to Let the Fandom Run Wild

When Sepideh Moafi was summoned to set for her first day on The Pitt‘s second season, she was halfway across town. She’d also gone to pilates and skipped the post-workout shower, a situation with even more dire consequences as usual, thanks to the medical drama taking place over the course of one single day (however the actors look during the first episode is how they will need to look for all 15). “They moved my start date up three days early because they were ahead of schedule,” she says. “No set in the history of the world is ever ahead of schedule.”

It easily would have been grounds for panic, but Moafi was ready for the moment. She’s been acting onscreen for 15 years; she broke out on The L Word: Generation Q, and also co-starred in The Deuce and Blackbird. Plus, she had The Pitt‘s expert crew to lend a hand. “The hair and makeup teams were amazing, they were like, ‘We got you girl,'” laughs Moafi. “The experience helped me get into her shoes even more, because that feeling is what it’s like to be an emergency physician: you never know what’s going to happen.”

On the HBO Max series Moafi, the only new series regular to join the cast after last year’s award-winning season, plays Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi, a veteran attending physician who arrives on the Fourth of July to prepare to relieve Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) when he departs on a sabbatical. “I had never been interested in medical shows,” prefaces the actress. “But everyone told me this show is different — and then I got the flu at the same time that I got word of the audition, and I binged the whole thing in a day and a half.” Here, Moafi tells The Hollywood Reporter what it was like to join the show and what we can make of Dr. Al-Hashimi’s new position.

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