In 2006, Shawn Hatosy Guest played on an episode of EASTDirected by the executive producer John Wells, as a patient with disorders of dissociative identity. “You have to take big risks when you play this type of character, to show contrasting personalities, and John was very open to me trying things and letting me fail sometimes; he was patient and helped me get there,” recalls Hatosy. After their packaging, he delivered a handwritten card to the Wells office with a sincere message: “I really appreciated this collaboration, and I really hope that we will have the chance to start again.”
Since then, Wells and Hatosy have made more than 100 television episodes. The writer-producer fought to include the actor of a known character then South-Planche And Animal kingdom. Then last year, roughly when he enlisted Hatosy to direct and reproduce Rescue: Hi-surfWells offered his long -standing public service player the role of Dr. Jack Abbot, a combat doctor who has become an emergency doctor in a Pittsburgh besieged hospital, in The Pitt.
Although Hatosy had difficulties at first to see himself as a television doctor, the creative team knew they wanted him to play an equal and foil to Dr Michael “Robby” by Noah Wyle. “Noah is a misleading actor in the sense that he is incredibly powerful and yet reserved. THR. “He just has a presence of command; He can enter a room and take care of. ”
Wyle and Hatosy had crossed several times over the years – they shared an agent and an publicist at the start of their career and often caught up during Wells celebrations. “This story and this affinity show in Bromance that we have on the screen, which is great,” explains Wyle. “I think the world of him.”
When he joined The PittHatosy received a two -page background frame that the showrunner R. Scott Gemmill created on the character, which the actor describes as “a treasure chest filled with hidden trauma”. From the start, Hatosy knew that Abbot was an amputee – his prosthetic leg was only revealed in the last minutes of the final – which would block from the night quarter in the pilot, then would return voluntarily for a mass event later in the season. “I knew it is the kind of guy who is very measured, very confident and very calm in front of the chaos,” he said. Abbot’s take -out bag and the tendency to listen to the police scanner while the gap only helped Hatosy to better understand the dependence of his character in the rush to adrenaline to save lives.
“Very early on, [Abbot] leans on the edge and says [to Robby]”I don’t know why I’m coming back here.” At the end of the day, when the roles are reversed, he says: “I know why I come back – we are the bees that protect the hive,” explains Hatosy on the roof stages. “This line is a pure abbot. It is not only something he says; That’s who he is. There is a deep comfort to play a character who understands his goal, and this clarity has really shaped the way I approached it. »»
After years of embodiment of morally complicated men, Hatosy admits that playing a character who is “in hand who sympathetic” is a good change of rhythm. But he shyly laughs at the suggestion that Abbot made of him a heart at the end of the forties. “The most flattering part is that I consider Abbot as an extension of me in many ways, both in his personality and the way he stands physically. I was not too worried about what I looked like when I filmed it,” he said. “On other shows, I spent a lot of time committing suicide trying to get the body and understanding this whole shit. And with this one, I said to myself: “No, let it be … me! And the idea that he landed is wonderful. »»
Although Wells insists on Hatosy’s future participation with The Pitt Will be summed up in his own availability as an actor increasingly on demand, Wyle confirms completely in a separate conversation that Abbot will appear in season two, which takes place during another quarter of 3 p.m. during a weekend of July 4.
Wyle, Wells and Gemmill Tell THR That the second season will inevitably tackle the current social and political climate, including the “Big Beautiful Bill” and other cups that President Trump has carried out the expense agencies and veterans in Medicaid.
Hatosy believes that Abbot “of course” would personally take these attacks against his own people. “It is a guy who believes that if you serve your country, your country should take you back. Whatever your policy, the cuts are the opposite of support, ”he says. “But I think that Abbot is definitely not political. He is not the type to speeches or big titles. He would carry this silent anger in each quarter of work. If a veterinarian needs care, he would get it for them. If the short term of emergencies, he will find them. And if the rules are hindering.”
Hatosy brought this same fighting spirit to her own 30 -year -old acting career. After falling in love with musicals and community theater in adolescence, his first professional credits (Homicide: Life in the streetJodie Foster Home for holidays) came from productions that fired Baltimore, near where he grew up in Maryland. He has been able to support himself and his family since, with a constant number of roles through the film (In and out,, The faculty,, John Q.) And television (Dexter,, Fear walking ailmentsfive Law and order shows).
But, to his big dam, Hatosy has not yet reserved a work on the strength of a self-tape, literally going 0 for 80 since the start of Animal kingdom. The lean years of his career, ironically, came after his six -season race on the show, which has experienced a kind of streaming resurgence due to The Pitt. “I have the impression that he will now start to get his divest retroactively from the roles he has really cried for years, but maybe the public has not yet been able to see,” said Wyle.
Winning his first Emmy nomination can change Hatosy’s life, but he insists that his approach to work remains the same. “I’m always going to fight for the things I want, and I always consider myself an actor in the working class,” he said. “This is what I am, and there is a responsibility there. I’m proud of it. “
This story appeared for the first time in an autonomous issue of August from the Hollywood Reporter Magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.
