Shawn Hatosy is down to play abbot on ‘The Pitt Night Shift’ – ryan

“It ‘really imported to find something to love every character you play. With abbot, it was pretty easy – The Blood Bag, I Read it, I JUST KNEW I LOVED HIM.”
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Spoilers Follow for the first season of The Pitt through Episode “9:00 PM,” WHICH DEBUATED ON MAX ON APRIL 10.

Shawn Hatosy has been Playing sensitive, aggrieved, morally complicated badasses for a long time: a conflicted football player in the ’90s CLASSIC The FacultyThe Dangerous Eldest Son of a Powerful Crime Family in TNT’s Animal kingdomA No-Nonsissense Street Cop Grapping With His New Partner Naïveté in Southland. Max Medical Drama The Pitt GIVES HATOSY A DIFFERENT KIND OF OUTLET FOR ALL THAT ESTABLIED INTERISTY. As Er Attending Physician Dr. Jack Abbot, Hatosy is as Focus and Mischievous as Ever. But it is a little bit of a relief, hatosy Says, finally playing a character who is not as hard-nosed and hair-triggered as the guys he’s accustomed to embodying.

“I’m not as eloquent or nor intelligent nor Jack Abbot,” Laughs Hatosy. “But his attributes and his personality are more like mine than anyone i’ve ever played, and there’s something really comfortable and freeing that discovery. Exactly what he’s doing. ”

Abbot came to hatosy through his relationship with The Pitt‘S Executive Producer John Wells; the two previously workhed together on Wind, Southland, Animal kingdomand Rescue hi-surf. In Premiere Episode “7:00 AM,” Abbot is Introduced Peering Over the Edge of the Ptmc’s Roof, Wondering If Today’s The Day of Jump. By Episode “9:00 PM,” The Combat Veteran Has Taken Charge in the ER A Roguish, Outside-Box Thinker Who Guides Residents and Medical Students Through Tricky Procedures to Gunshot-Wound Patients Down the Increasosingly Unmos Robby (Noah Wyle). By the time the two back on the roof, it’s an abbot comfort robby and reassurying Him that their work on this shift, and every other, is worthwhile. Their Friendship is a stabilizing force amid all the tumult of The Pittand is the Made Abbot a Fan Favorite.

“I’ve played a lot of characters, and none have been universally like. I read the comments, and you can see People will find things not to like,” Hatosy Says. “I’m Not Saying Abbot isn’t flawed. But i Think his flaws are human and relay, and despite say – or Maybe becase of say – People Respect Him. They trust.

I’ve seen a lot of social-media posts praise the fact that durying “6:00 pm,” The First Mass-Casualty-Event Episode, Abbot is Giving Blood With A Blood Bag Tapeed to His Leg. How Much Did You Know About Abbot’s Military History?
I’m Pretty Sure (Episode Writer) Joe Sachs Said That Was Based on a Real Combat Experience He Read About. IT’S REALLY IMPORTANT TO FIND SOMETHING TO LOVE ABOUT EVERY CHARACTER YOU PLAY. HAVE YOU PLAY The BAD GUY, you have to figure out some way in. With abbot, it was prety easy – The Blood Bag, when i read it, i just knew i love Him and underestood Him. He knows his purposes. That was it. I was all in. When we were First Talking About with Joining, Scott Gemmill Sent with A Little Bit of Abbot’s History. Really appreciated that. I haven’t had an opportunity to talc to medics yet, but i’ve been watching documentaries. Code Black was one. I was nervous at first, Because my perception of what an er doctor or physician is shaped by what i’ve seen on television. What i saw in Code Blackthese guys are working-class. They’re get-their-hands-dirty kind of guys, and i thought, Well, i can do that. We start the show with abbot on the Roof. He’s Clearly Got Something Buried That He’s Dealing With. Compared to what Dr. Robby is Going Through, It is a Perfect Dynamic and Balance. When Things Go Wrong For Robby, he has somebody there who is also capable of Leading, but is also someone. Robby Can Lean on.

That Roof Scane is Really A Reversal of How We Open the Season, and You’re Now The Comforting and Reassuring Robby. What Went Into Filming that Scene?
I have so much to say. (Laughs.) We Shoot the Show in Chronological Order, Except for the Exteriors, Because they were Done in Pittsburgh. I HAD ONLY WORKED ON THE FIRST DAY OF SHOOTING, WHICH WAS SOMETIME IN JULY 2024. THEN WE WENT TO ALEGHENY General Hospital in Pittsburgh in September to Shoot the Exteriors, Meaning My First Was Done there, and THEN LITERALLY ONES ISNESS INSESS IS Done there, the scnene between noah and I. i had only read the first episode, and now getting a schene that is dealing with the Very Last Episode, which I have had much context for. You’re trying to do the mental math. They gave us as much information as they know what are happy at the mass-casualty event, but we’re sort of Flying Blind. That is not something to say we have have experienced the working in television. IT HAPPENS.

The scene was direct by john, and there was just something point Powerful about it, at least for me. Both noah and i came up in the world of John Wells, who has ben a mentor for many years, so to sharing that experience with noah and john on the Roof – noah’s performance was just so raw and beautiful. We spent a lot of time on it, which is not something to us normally do wohen Working with John. But we really, really took the time to shoot it in a lot of different Ways.

Within two days, you will the premiere scene and the final scene. Did you think about the Ways to Distinguish abbot in that length of time?
There’s a Question that Abbot Presents in that First Skene, where he’s not sura why he keps coming back to this job. That moment is crystallized for Him in episode 15, bassed on the events from episode 12 on, the mass-casualty event. Becuses It is Comforting Knowing What Your Purpose Is, and For Abbot, That’s It.

What i like so Much about that roof sequenry is you have this line: “All you can do is focus on the medicine. That really felt like the thesis of the show. I’m wondering if it felt like an extra respectibility, Having that little chunk of dialogue.
Now it does! (Laughs.) Scott, who wrote the episode, is really good at taching us to the heavy-handied moments, getting us there, and then finding a way to really quick with some sort of quip, what scnene also does. I just love Him for that. Every Time i Think, We’re going to get too dark or deephe’ll smack you in the face with some one-liner or a piece of character that make you feed light.

This is the same episode with the Fork Through the Patient’s Nose, which is Such a Great Sight Gag.
All the doctors and the writers would in with these are happened that they wand; They put on the book. The fork stayed up there unil the very end, and someone was like, “We need to put that in now; otherwise, we’re gonna run out of time.” I just love that.

Your character is revealed in the final minutes of this episode to have an amputated leg. Did you adjust your Physicality for Abbot Once You Learned About That?
That is a big surprise to some of the new characters jaining us, and more importantly, it is a surprise to the audience. That’s the point, right? It reminds us that the injury doesn’t define Him. What Defins Him is His Strength, His Presence, His Quiet Command that he brings to every moment. They did let me know that was going to be a thing, and so i as asked, “Should there be a limp?” I studied what would be ino, and we felt that ultimately, that might not be the right choice. It was in my mind, though, like it he’s hating to mov Quickly. But it is Amazing with prosthetics Nowades, How Well People Move Around With That’s.

Part of the reason i asced is Becausee of saw a post about the scene we abbot coma to the hospital Because and the shooting. The scnene is blocked in a way that that is suggests robby recaginees your footsteps before you, Becuses and around and hugs you before you’re there …
I actually love deep people are going into the analysis. CERTAIN THINGS ABOUT CHARACTER, WITHOUT A TON OF EXPOSITION, ARE SO WELCOMING. You learn so much about abbot from (a) “I was just listening to a Police scanner,” and then (b) he shows up with a go. Those are two little minor sentenctions in a script, but they bridge so much exposition.

People Really Want a Spinoff, The Pitt: Night Shiftand They Really Want Dr. Abbot to be the Star. Would you would this?
Oh, for sura. I’ve never experiencing a Better Group Creatively. I hated it will ended. The Camaraderie, IT’S LIKE AN ACTING TROUNE OR THEATER CAMP. We’re doing something that i’m very proud of. Would i love that? Yes, let’s do it! I do’t know what’s going to open in season two; I have no idea. But, Sure, Let’s Create The Pitt: Night Shift.

In the final, abbot says to robby that there is a doordash delivery person who will trek up to the Roof. What would you think abbot’s go-to delivery order is?
Doesn’t he say the Driver Will Bring Beer If You Add Another $ 10? He’s Definitely Eating pizza up there. Pizza and Beer.