‘The Pitt’ Team Explains “Friction” With New Doctor, Characters’ Mindset
Castmembers Supriya Ganesh, Taylor Dearden and Gerran Howell reveal what their characters have been up to in the 10 months in between seasons while executive producers John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill and star Noah Wyle reveal their thoughts on Netflix's proposed Warner Bros. acquisition and what it might mean for their HBO Max show.
When The Pitt shared the opening of season two with viewers eager for a fresh glimpse of the hit medical drama, footage of Noah Wyle‘s Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch riding a motorcycle to work was quickly met with variations of the same comment: Why isn’t Dr. Robby wearing a helmet?
Particularly for The Pitt, with Wyle and others on the show stressing accuracy, showing the main character doing something that many ER docs say they would never do was a surprise.
But, fear not, Pitt fans, all will be revealed.
Showrunner R. Scott Gemmill and executive producer John Wells say the choice to have Robby biking in a more dangerous way “was by design,” Gemmill says, and to show that he was doing something he shouldn’t be doing.
“It shouldn’t be how he is,” Gemmill tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Pennsylvania is a no helmet law state so you can ride without a helmet. And some people do. Robby shouldn’t, and it really goes to his mindset at the time. And we’ll see more of that as the episodes progress, in terms of maybe why he is doing what he’s doing.”
Showing Robby on his motorcycle was also a way of conveying what Wells and Gemmill have seen over their decades of writing about medicine, first on ER and now on The Pitt, that many emergency doctors and nurses are “adrenaline junkies.”
“It’s one of the things that they love about the ER: there’s this stuff coming at you,” Wells says. “ER docs are oftentimes also skydivers, base jumpers; they dive to ridiculously low depths in ice cold water for fun. They are climbers. It’s who they are. They like the thrill of it.”
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