Noah Wyle directly addressed viewers being divided on some of the story lines on The Pitt, including Robby’s scenes with Mohan.
“I’m less honed in than you would think,” Wyle, 54, told ScreenRant earlier this month. “But I do have children who keep me very aware of what most people are saying.”
Wyle heard about some of the feedback on social media.
“My son calls me and goes, ‘Dad, America is really mad at you. You’ve got to stop yelling at Mohan,’” he quipped. “Or, ‘Dad, everybody’s really worried about you. They think you’re going to kill yourself.’ So that’s usually how I get my feedback.”
Did ‘The Pitt’ Season 2 Finale Hint at More Cast Exits? Ending Explained
Season 2 of The Pitt was a rough journey for Wyle’s character, Robby, ending with an emotional scene with Baby Jane Doe.
“Emotionally, it was the culmination of a lot of goodbyes. We’d seen him say goodbye to Abbot, Duke and Dana — and then he has the exchange with Langdon. It removes all of his resistance to going,” Wyle exclusively told Us Weekly about the season 2 finale while examining Robby’s mental state. “Then he sits there and he looks at this innocent [baby] — who is also an abandoned soul and who is also helpless in the world. He just connects.”
It was important to have Robby end this chapter of his story with the baby.
“He spills a secret to the only person that can’t answer back or can’t repeat what he has to say in the room where all of his secrets are,” Wyle continued. “So it just seemed like very nice and poetic symmetry to bring him back into that room and to have him deal with that baby at the end of it all.”
Wyle recalled the biggest challenge of bringing the scene to life, adding, “Anytime you’re working with babies on set, you’re working very quickly. We had three babies that day, and they were being totally uncooperative with what we needed them to do. That baby finally stopped crying — or started crying — and we just started shooting.”
He continued: “We shot all that in 16 minutes. It was technically very quick and efficient work.”
What ‘The Pitt’ Cast Has Said About the Show’s Numerous Exits
While the season was airing, news broke that Supriya Ganesh would not be returning to the show as Dr. Mohan. It was reported that the exit was a “story-driven” decision.
“It’s an inevitability that’s going to happen every season with this show, because as writers we’re hard-pressed to figure out what a lapse of time we can have and keep most of the ensemble together realistically,” Wyle told Variety at PaleyFest’s screening of The Pitt. “Emergency rooms have a high revolving door. As always, we try to bring in new characters or promote from within as we go through these cast changes and try to keep the story lines fresh, but obviously Supriya has been a huge part of our show since the beginning.”
He concluded: “Dr. Mohan is a beloved character, and I love playing with her and working with Supriya, and we wish her all the best in her next endeavors, and we’re going to miss her.”
The Pitt has been renewed for season 3 on HBO Max.
