Noah Wyle

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531 appearances 6 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 22 Apr

Noah Wyle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Fresh Air · Best Of: 'The Pitt' Star Noah Wyle / 'Sinners' Director Ryan Coogler · 26 Apr 2025 podcast

Awfully intense. It's tough to get the impact of that clip on radio, but that was a Laforte III floating face fracture, which when you put your fingers on somebody's teeth and you pull their teeth forward, their entire face comes with it. It's rather dramatic. You don't see it very often in an emergency room.

Right. And you don't see it on the radio, but it is dramatic there. But just the audio, I mean, you can hear the intensity of it. And there's all this medical jargon flying by. I mean, did you know all this stuff before you got into this series?

I knew quite a bit of it. You know, after 15 years on a medical show, you pick up certain things through osmosis. The specifics of what each patient needs when they come in is a total mystery to me. And thankfully, we've got a great team of technical advisors on the writing staff and on the set. Our secret weapon is a man named Dr. Joe Sachs, who is a board certified emergency room physician.

He was a technical advisor and a writer on ER, and he is with us again. And he is meticulous in his attention to detail. And he basically does those trauma scenes.

He will sort of present what the appropriate medicine and procedures are, what each person in the room's role is, given their hierarchy in the hospital, and even weighing in a little bit on emotionally how they may be feeling given the circumstances and stakes of the case.

Yeah. I watched this series with my wife who was 25 years as a primary care physician. She gets almost all of it. I get maybe a third of it. But I don't feel like I'm missing much. But I did wonder – you were a writer on the show, I know. I mean do you think about maybe letting up on some of that or is getting all that in critical to the authenticity of it?

One of the decisions we made early on was to not employ any soundtrack in the show. And by lifting the music out, we've sort of removed the artifice that says you're watching a TV show and we need you to feel sad here because we're playing strings or exciting here because we're using percussion. We're letting the sort of symphony of the sound of the procedures in the room play.

be our cadence, and a lot of that is the technical jargon that the doctors are employing. It becomes the soundtrack and the scene, and the intensity with which they're delivering those lines becomes the emotional equivalent of a score. And it's really less important the audience understands and more important that the audience sees that the doctors know what they're talking about.

It's competency porn.

You know, the origins of this show are interesting. As I understand it, during the pandemic, you began hearing from medical providers and first responders who were dealing with all this high-stakes stressful demand on them. Is that right?

Yeah. Yeah. I was, you know, watching the news, but I was also getting a lot of mail that was coming from first responders. And some of it was, you know, hey, Carter, we could use you out here.

Carter was the character you played on ER, right?

Outside of the birth of my kids, this is probably the best thing I ever did with my life because we inspired a generation of practitioners to go into the work that is saving lives right now. And then I went on to say that I think something's happening here. And if you ever want to make a show about what's happening here, even though... We said we'd never do it again.

I might be ready to volunteer. And a couple years later, you know, after we saw how this broke down over socioeconomic lines and racial lines and geographic lines, there was a show to be told here.

What was it like for you to put on scrubs and a lab coat and get back in a hospital setting again after all those years?

It was wonderful. Yeah. I think I spent 15 years avoiding, actively avoiding walking down what I thought was either hallowed ground or traveled road. And then finally I had an opportunity to come back and was excited about it and slipped a stethoscope around my neck and just felt right at home.

You know, I should just mention it's been widely reported that there is some litigation around this. The estate of Michael Crichton, who was the creator of ER, has sued alleging that The Pit is an unauthorized reboot of the program. I mean one of the differences between the two shows is that – The pit is the entire 15 episodes are one day in the life of this ER.

There's an hour – essentially in real time, an hour per episode is one hour of the day. And so you get to see these things develop just over a day. So that's the real distinction.

Very much so. Different city, different character. We had started down a reboot road, and then that became an impossibility. And so we pivoted as far away from it as we could to come up with a new medical show. I stand by we have.

You're the lead attending in this emergency room. And in real life, you're also an executive producer and a writer and an experienced actor among a cast which includes a lot of, you know, much younger actors. Were you kind of a coach on the set in the same way you're a medical coach for these people learning the craft?

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