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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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 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.
The rehearsals are extensive, especially for the medical scenes. We often rehearse those 24 hours in advance of shooting them so we can come in with it pretty well in our muscles already and then figure out how we want to photograph it on the day we shoot. In terms of how the dialogue is overlapped, that's intentional because that's real.
You know, you've got four or five people in the room all are working simultaneously trying to do their own thing and record their own thing in the medical record. So a lot of times the sound is really cacophonous.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, yes. Ironically, I'm 20 years older than Anthony Edwards was playing The Attending 30 years ago. So that makes me sound ancient.
Very much so. Different city, different character. We had started down a reboot road, and then it 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.
In a way, you know, it's interesting. We started with two weeks of medical boot camp for everybody, myself included, to kick some rust off and to re-familiarize myself with how much has changed in health care, but also to bring everybody up to speed with where they needed to be by the time we rolled the cameras.
And John Wells, who directed the pilot episode and executive produced, said to me, don't be too nice to him. And then he sort of segregated us where I was off by myself and I ate lunch by myself. Eight together, the R2s and 3s ate together.
Second-year residents, fourth-year residents. And the med students all ate together by themselves. And they all sat behind me. And then when we did our training rotations, the med students learned what med students know. And the R2s learned R2 stuff and so forth. And I kind of walked around and did a little bit of everything.
But it set a kind of hierarchical tone and differentiated us enough as performers that when we started working, it carried over.
So whether it was a byproduct of the rehearsal or the fact that I am considerably older than the rest of the cast or that I've played a doctor before, yes, there was a lot of meta energy where everybody was sort of playing the dynamics that were present and just sort of heightening them a little bit.
Yeah, to a degree. I mean, I don't stand on ceremony when I work and I try to create as much of an egalitarian and democratic environment as possible. And so I try to erase numbers on call sheets and I try to erase barriers between foreground and background or cast and crew and try to call the whole thing company and get everybody to buy into the same thing. And it's very hard to do that.
It's very rare that you're successful. This one was the stars aligned beautifully. Everybody just jumped in. Which made it a real pleasure.
Either his pneumonia is getting worse or his heart couldn't handle the fluids that we gave him to treat the sepsis. His lungs are filling up with fluid.
Not without his blood pressure crashing with very bad consequences. So let's just hope the BiPAP works.
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