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\n Playing one of the worst days of Mohan\u2019s life, her first reaction was \u201cI feel like I really screwed up\u201d
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Spoilers follow for The Pitt<\/a> season two episode 10, \u201c4:00 P.M.<\/a>,\u201d which premiered on HBO Max on Thursday, March 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n Everyone who works at the Pitt is having an awful day, but resident Samira Mohan (Supriya Ganesh) is having a particularly awful one. Her diabetic patient Orlando Diaz (William Guirola) walked out<\/a> after learning his hospital bills could swell to tens of thousands of dollars. Samira\u2019s mother won\u2019t stop calling to discuss her new relationship and plans to sell their family home. Then the hospital\u2019s computer system<\/a> goes down just as victims from a waterpark-slide collapse arrive at the ER. Mohan is accosted by a pushy patient and then swarmed by desperate ones in the waiting room, and suddenly she\u2019s having a panic attack \u2014 a totally reasonable response, if not exactly one Ganesh saw coming.<\/p>\n \u201cThe panic attack was a surprise to me. But then I was like, \u2018Why would we ever know a panic attack is coming?\u2019\u201d Ganesh laughs. \u201cI leaned into the unexpectedness of it. I have had my own experience with it in the past, and I was having, weirdly, imposter syndrome about my panic attack. Did I even really experience it? I was looking up symptoms, and I was like, Oh no, I did. I should have recorded myself.\u201d<\/p>\n In The Pitt\u2019s first season, Mohan is a thoughtful, curious resident, though her supervisor, Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle<\/a>), criticizes her for spending too much time with her patients. She\u2019s a good doctor but, under the hospital\u2019s time restrictions, not a particularly efficient one. Her relationship with Robby seems stronger in season two<\/a>, until Robby reacts to her \u201c4:00 P.M.\u201d panic attack with shocking contempt \u2014 cursing at her and telling her to go home if she can\u2019t do her job. It\u2019s a galling moment Ganesh communicates with a devastated, dazed expression and a glimmer of what she considers Mohan\u2019s own self-hatred. \u201cShe processes how awful it is after the fact in a way that a lot of people process something that\u2019s traumatic,\u201d Ganesh says. \u201cGenuinely, I think this is one of the worst days of her life.\u201d<\/p>\n Mohan is now a fourth-year resident. She\u2019s applying for fellowships. She doesn\u2019t seem to be struggling as much with her caseload this season. In what ways did the time jump change your character, and how did you want your performance to reflect that heading into season two?\u00a0 New this season is the dynamic between Mohan and her mom, which really starts coming to the fore in episode seven<\/a>, when Mohan\u2019s mom is calling her over and over again. From what you understood about Mohan, did it track for her to be super-frazzled by her mom?\u00a0 Tell me about the imagination work you did.\u00a0 Samira reaches her breaking point in \u201c4:00 P.M.\u201d She\u2019s snapping at patients. She starts experiencing stomach pains. She thinks she\u2019s having a heart attack. I\u2019m curious about the physical challenges of externalizing this internal thing she\u2019s going through.\u00a0 When Robby questions Mohan about her symptoms, you give this little pause before Mohan says \u201cno\u201d to the possibility of being pregnant. I feel like the fandom is going to interrogate this pause.\u00a0 That\u2019s how I read it, too, but I know about the Mohan and Abbot shippers. That pregnancy question is before this really unprofessional moment where Robby unleashes on Mohan. He says, \u201cIs this a panic attack because of your mommy issues? Jesus, do you need to go home? You should go home. I don\u2019t need the fucking liability. Go home.\u201d It\u2019s awful as an audience member to watch. What was your reaction to reading it, and what do you remember about filming it?\u00a0 But it\u2019s also about the context of where it\u2019s happening, how it\u2019s happening, and how he says it. Even as the character, I felt very emotional seeing Dr. Al-Hashimi in the room because that\u2019s someone I really want to impress and I\u2019m really fucking embarrassed that this is happening in front of her. In the moment when he\u2019s talking to Samira that way, I feel like I was so focused on trying to convince him. Then the second he leaves, I\u2019m like, I can\u2019t fucking believe that just happened. I don\u2019t even know what to say. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a point of no return, but I think it\u2019s pretty bad \u2014 especially when he apologizes. The fact that he doesn\u2019t really stand by that apology, she\u2019s like, What do I even do about this? This is my boss. I\u2019m trying to get into a fellowship here next year. Is this something I\u2019m comfortable having to potentially experience again?\u00a0<\/p>\n What\u2019s interesting to me is that the reason why he\u2019s so hard on her about this panic attack is because he had one himself<\/a> after the MCI<\/a>. He is projecting, and I\u2019m sure that\u2019s how he talks to himself after that mental-health crisis. There\u2019s things Samira doesn\u2019t know, and I don\u2019t think she ever will, because he\u2019s someone that keeps things like that really close to his chest. As an audience member, you can see where it\u2019s coming from, whether you agree or disagree with it. Personally, I think nothing gives you the right to speak to anyone that way. But she doesn\u2019t realize where it\u2019s coming from, and I don\u2019t think she even realizes how awful it was until after it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n Did you and Noah play it a lot of different ways? How did it compare to the table read?\u00a0 In the table read, we were both very calm. We started finding things while filming. Noah did a couple takes where he pushed himself further. I don\u2019t know what ended up in the actual episode. It sounds like it\u2019s one of the ones where he pushed a little further. I\u2019m someone that doesn\u2019t like to force anything. She\u2019s responding so much to what she\u2019s hearing. I would really let myself listen for all of my coverage and take the environment in as much as I could. After the scene, Noah and I gave each other a hug because that was kind of awful. We don\u2019t really feel this way about each other. It was good to have that closure by the end of it.<\/p>\n Episode ten is so heavy. I want to ask you about a slightly lighter moment in \u201c1:00 P.M.,\u201d<\/a> and Robby\u2019s double take when he walks by and sees you and Abbot (Shawn Hatosy<\/a>) together. I would have lost it at that expression. How did that come together?\u00a0 The thing with Isa and Sepi doing a double take \u2014 that was improv. They filmed their portion of the scene, and Shawn and I were off-camera at that point. Then when they were filming the other way of the coverage \u2014 behind Isa\u2019s back, essentially \u2014 Isa was like, \u201cWait, I\u2019m sorry. I need to react. This is so crazy.\u201d They reset the camera to get a take of her doing it. She was so insistent. Santos is such a self-proclaimed gossip queen, she would absolutely go, \u201cWait, what?\u201d<\/p>\n I love that. It\u2019s a hard day in the Pitt. Sometimes you just gotta watch what could be sexual tension between a couple of people.\u00a0
Season-one Mohan starts off in a really insecure place and then gains a lot of confidence by the end of the shift. I relished the time jump between seasons because I thought that was such an interesting way to show growth on a show that has this time constraint. I didn\u2019t really know where her arc was going \u2014 the writers developed it as the show went on \u2014 so it naturally came together that a lot of this confidence gets chipped away by the end of season with the obstacles that were being thrown at me.<\/p>\n
Oh yeah. That was the one thing creator R. Scott Gemmill and I had talked about in between seasons, and that was a great thing to do imagination work on. This is not something Samira would do, ever \u2014 her mom just met this guy, and now she\u2019s going on this cruise with him and selling the house that Samira thought she was going to go back to. That was really meaty and fun to play with. I definitely think she was always closer to her dad, which is why the loss of her father was so hard in her teenage years. While she is close with her mom, I decided they get on each other\u2019s nerves a little. When you\u2019re an only child and you only have one parent left, you end up in this weird almost-friend place with them, and that\u2019s what Samira unfortunately had to be in some ways for her mom. The frazzledness, it was a choice I made. It\u2019s part of what\u2019s fueling this nervous breakdown.<\/p>\n
I did this in season one, too, but it was really important in my prep for season two to imagine that last day with her dad. Samira\u2019s dad passed away from a heart attack because of medical mismanagement. They go to this hospital because her dad\u2019s having chest pains. They send him back home; there\u2019s maybe a tinge of racism there, where it\u2019s like, We don\u2019t have time for this. He goes back home, and then he passes. One reason she\u2019s so gutted about losing the house is because that was the last place she saw her dad alive. She always thought she was going to go back there. It\u2019s not unheard of for South Asian people to live together with their partner and their own parents. She\u2019s even losing her mom because she\u2019s now starting this new relationship. That\u2019s one less person that\u2019s going to remember her dad the way she wants him to be remembered.<\/p>\n
I haven\u2019t seen the edit, but one of the decisions I made was to have clenched fists. It\u2019s not something I experienced, but a lot of people who experience panic attacks have that. I wanted to make sure there was chest pain, but also stomach pain, which women sometimes experience heart attacks as. A big challenge for me was the breathing, because you have to work yourself up to hyperventilating. I really had to figure out how to time myself, because otherwise I would have passed out. Every patient on our show gets an intimacy coordinator, and as a patient, I got my intimacy coordinator for that scene, Nicole Randall. I asked Nicole to keep an eye on when the camera would start rolling, so that I could start doing my breath work at the right time. It\u2019s interesting how broad their role can be. It\u2019s also about, like, comfort.<\/p>\n
This is her boss \u2014 in some ways, this paternal figure \u2014 essentially asking her if she has sex. The pause is very much her being like, I feel really awkward about admitting that there\u2019s no possible way that I would be at risk of that right now. She\u2019s embarrassed about that.<\/p>\n
My first reaction, and in some ways it also is Samira\u2019s reaction when she first hears it, is, \u201cI feel like I really screwed up.\u201d Whether that\u2019s true in an objective sense, Samira \u2013 and I relate to her about this \u2014 is someone who\u2019s really hard on herself. There\u2019s a part of Samira that hates herself, that understands or even wants to say those things to herself in that moment.<\/p>\n
I put up everything that had gone wrong in her shift so far. She is aware she literally lost a patient, Mr. Diaz. That situation is really triggering. She feels almost embarrassed to say that she\u2019s worried about this patient, and he reminds her of her dad, and she\u2019s worried about the family, because we\u2019ve seen Robby in particular react to her being too preoccupied with a patient. But it\u2019s really on her mind.<\/p>\n
It was really funny because Shawn could see the door, but he was like, \u201cI need to look elsewhere, because if I watch Noah doing that, I\u2019m gonna lose it.\u201d It\u2019s such a great moment of physical comedy. We did so many takes of that with so many variations and so many options. I\u2019m sure they could make a blooper reel. I had a very easy thing of being focused on the wound, so I could totally miss it. But Shawn had a harder thing where he had to completely avoid looking in that direction to make it realistic. It was fun. It was in the script for sure. That wasn\u2019t improv.<\/p>\n
Yeah! And Samira has an awful day. If getting some help from Abbot about this patient who doesn\u2019t really have the best outcome is her bright light of the day, good for her. It\u2019s the last bit of hope she will probably feel for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n