Noah Wyle
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and oftentimes feels disingenuous or inauthentic to the process. So when you can have these things kind of arc over several hours, it feels like you can kind of walk through those five stages of grief with these characters. When we prepare for them, there's a lot of conversation about tone and about specificity of point of view.
In this particular instance, we have a brother and a sister who have very different reasons for wanting to keep their father alive, that have an emotional core to them that gets revealed in subsequent episodes. So you want everybody in these scenes to have a real point of view that's legitimate to who they are.
In this particular instance, we have a brother and a sister who have very different reasons for wanting to keep their father alive, that have an emotional core to them that gets revealed in subsequent episodes. So you want everybody in these scenes to have a real point of view that's legitimate to who they are.
In this particular instance, we have a brother and a sister who have very different reasons for wanting to keep their father alive, that have an emotional core to them that gets revealed in subsequent episodes. So you want everybody in these scenes to have a real point of view that's legitimate to who they are.
And then when those three truths come out and they are in conflict with each other, as they often are, that makes for good drama.
And then when those three truths come out and they are in conflict with each other, as they often are, that makes for good drama.
And then when those three truths come out and they are in conflict with each other, as they often are, that makes for good drama.
The other thing that's happening in this story with your character is, you know, I mentioned before that this series kind of the germ of it began during COVID when you were hearing from first responders and the crises they were facing. And in the show, your character, Dr. Robbie. During COVID, lost a mentor, another doctor.
The other thing that's happening in this story with your character is, you know, I mentioned before that this series kind of the germ of it began during COVID when you were hearing from first responders and the crises they were facing. And in the show, your character, Dr. Robbie. During COVID, lost a mentor, another doctor.
The other thing that's happening in this story with your character is, you know, I mentioned before that this series kind of the germ of it began during COVID when you were hearing from first responders and the crises they were facing. And in the show, your character, Dr. Robbie. During COVID, lost a mentor, another doctor.
And I believe this day that is the focus of the series is the anniversary of his death, right? We learned that early on. And then you want to just talk a bit about how his flashbacks, his PTSD, if you will, is portrayed in the show?
And I believe this day that is the focus of the series is the anniversary of his death, right? We learned that early on. And then you want to just talk a bit about how his flashbacks, his PTSD, if you will, is portrayed in the show?
And I believe this day that is the focus of the series is the anniversary of his death, right? We learned that early on. And then you want to just talk a bit about how his flashbacks, his PTSD, if you will, is portrayed in the show?
This is the five-year anniversary of him taking his mentor off life support, which during the height of COVID, he had to be put on. And then ultimately in our backstory, he had to be taken off the life support to give it to another patient who had a better chance of survival. And then everybody died. And it was a traumatic memory that my character has just not really ever dealt with.
This is the five-year anniversary of him taking his mentor off life support, which during the height of COVID, he had to be put on. And then ultimately in our backstory, he had to be taken off the life support to give it to another patient who had a better chance of survival. And then everybody died. And it was a traumatic memory that my character has just not really ever dealt with.
This is the five-year anniversary of him taking his mentor off life support, which during the height of COVID, he had to be put on. And then ultimately in our backstory, he had to be taken off the life support to give it to another patient who had a better chance of survival. And then everybody died. And it was a traumatic memory that my character has just not really ever dealt with.
He's moved on. And today is a day he probably should have stayed home. But today he went to work. And as a result, he's just getting triggered by different things. And those memories begin to come up with greater and greater frequency and greater and greater poignancy to the point where he becomes totally debilitated by them.
He's moved on. And today is a day he probably should have stayed home. But today he went to work. And as a result, he's just getting triggered by different things. And those memories begin to come up with greater and greater frequency and greater and greater poignancy to the point where he becomes totally debilitated by them.
He's moved on. And today is a day he probably should have stayed home. But today he went to work. And as a result, he's just getting triggered by different things. And those memories begin to come up with greater and greater frequency and greater and greater poignancy to the point where he becomes totally debilitated by them.
And the aggregate of all of that grief and all of that suppressed emotion just overwhelms him. And it was interesting. My mother was an orthopedic nurse and an operating room nurse. She worked for 20 years at a hospital in Hollywood.