{"id":591545,"date":"2026-08-13T02:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591545\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T02:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:00:20","slug":"wizards-of-waverly-place-star-nurse-jennifer-stone-auditioned-for-the-pitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591545\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards of Waverly Place Star, Nurse Jennifer Stone Auditioned for The Pitt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJennifer Stone, the former Wizards of Waverly Place<\/a> star and current nurse, says she previously auditioned to be part of The Pitt<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe actress appeared on the CHEERS! with Avery<\/a> podcast (hosted by upcoming Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County star Avery Woods), where she reflected on the audition process for the Emmy-winning medical drama. She explained that she even studied her lines while she was working a shift as a nurse. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI auditioned for one of the series regulars for\u00a0The Pitt\u00a0when that first came out. And I remember, because at the end of the pilot episode, the\u00a0Noah Wyle\u00a0character, he\u2019s having COVID flashbacks,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd as I often do, I was reading the script and working on lines while we were waiting for a patient to get admitted, kind of in those brief little pockets of time that you have, so I was working on the lines and reading the script at work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStone began working as an emergency room nurse in 2022; she also began a separate role as a disaster relief registered nurse in 2023, according to her LinkedIn<\/a>. On the podcast, she said that The Pitt was so similar to her own work as a nurse that she nearly had a \u201cpanic attack\u201d reading the lines.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe continued, \u201cAnd it got to those last few pages, and I started having a panic attack, just even hearing about that. I started having, like, the heavy breathing and I started having to do the, OK, this is the floor, that\u2019s a table. Like, I started having to like talk myself down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI have a hard time watching it \u2019cause it\u2019s too close to home a little bit,\u201d Stone added of The Pitt. <\/p>\n

\n\tStone starred on the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place from 2007-2012, and recently reprised her role as Harper Finkle for the final season of the reboot series, Wizards Beyond Waverly Place. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Stone, the former Wizards of Waverly Place star and current nurse, says she previously auditioned to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,29910,41129],"class_list":["post-591545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-the-pitt","tag-wizards-of-waverly-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}