Noah Wyle has played a doctor for so long that he instinctively lends a hand in emergency medical aid without hesitation. Laëtitia Hollard, a standout in the second season of The Pitt, revealed on Monday's episode of Warner Bros. TV's A Lot More podcast that she now counts herself among Wyle's real-life "patients."
Hollard recalled shooting a scene in the bustling "control hub" of the medical drama's main set, where the expansive ensemble cast moved around each other in a frenetic manner. Hollard's shy and studious nursing graduate, Emma Nolan, "had this little moment where you see me enter in episode 1 with this notebook and all these things on me. And Dana (Katherine LaNasa) finally tells me, 'Hey, you can go grab your notebook.'"
Shooting this exceedingly simple scene would prove nearly disastrous for Hollard, were it not for Wyle's quick thinking. "I was so excited to grab it," Hollard recalled. "I was like, 'Finally, I can use the tools that I brought here. I'm ready for this.' So I had to squeeze past Noah to get my notebook, because he's talking, and I'm like, 'Oh my god, I'm being little shy Emma.' Every time I squeezed past, I would bump my elbow a little bit."
Hollard brushed off the first few times it happened, but then she was told the camera would be locked on her for a take. "Adrenaline was automatically pumping through my system," she said. "So I bump it again, and I go and get that notebook. When I come back and reset, I see there's like fake blood on the counter. And I literally say to someone, 'Who left fake blood here?' And Noah goes, 'I think you nicked yourself.' I look at my elbow, it's covered with blood."
Wyle, who anchors The Pitt as the courageous attending physician Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, didn't waste a second. "Noah was like, 'Don't worry, this is the best place for this to happen.' And he brought me to a corner. He's like, 'You have so many medical professionals here,' and he became like Dr. Robby," she recounted.
Wyle didn't just bring her to the show's set medic; he treated Hollard himself. "He brought me to a corner, he brought out the gauze and disinfectant. I was like, 'Wait, I'm in The Pitt right now,'" Hollard joked. When eventually "a real nurse passed by, Wyle suggested they care for Hollard," not him. "I'm pretending," he said.
The Pitt premiered on HBO Max in January 2025 and swept the preceding Emmy Awards, and was renewed for a second season the following January. That season proved a critical darling as well, and in April, showrunner R. Scott Gemmill teased the possibility of a night shift-focused story for the upcoming third season.
