Noah Wyle

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.

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 healthcare, 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.

And then the R4s ate together, the R2s and 3s ate together.

Second-year residents, fourth-year residents.