{"id":520324,"date":"2026-04-08T22:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/520324\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:08:09","slug":"patrick-ball-says-the-pitt-saved-him-from-80000-worth-of-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/520324\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Ball Says The Pitt Saved Him From $80,000 Worth of Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cThe Pitt<\/a>\u201d actor Patrick Ball<\/a> broke down in tears while speaking to Cultured magazine <\/a>and revealed how the Emmy-winning HBO Max medical series helped him get out $80,000 worth of student loan debt. Ball stars on the show as Dr. Frank Langdon. \u201cThe Pitt\u201d is currently airing its second season on the streamer.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI paid off my student loans like three months into \u2018The Pitt,\u2019 and that was a really profound moment because I thought I was gonna die with it,\u201d Ball said through tears. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge burden to carry, and a lot of people carry it. I was $80,000 in debt and I had been through a series of failed relationships where my financial insecurity was a real problem. I had just thought that was going to be my life forever, and that is a really heavy thing to live with.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBall added, \u201cPaying off those student loans and getting back to zero, I remember being like, \u2018Man, if this show works, great. If it doesn\u2019t work, they can\u2019t take that away from me. I am out of debt.\u2019 No take-backsies on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBall earned a Critics\u2019 Choice Television Award nomination for best supporting actor in a drama series thanks to his performance on \u201cThe Pitt.\u201d He won a SAG Award as part of the show\u2019s ensemble cast, which is headlined by Emmy winner Noah Wyle. Prior to being cast in \u201cThe Pitt,\u201d Ball was leaning towards a life outside of Hollywood all together. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe financial outlook can be bleak. I was looking for an off-ramp,\u201d Ball told the publication, noting his then-girlfriend\u2019s dad was trying to convince him to join the FBI. He was later working four jobs when he moved to New York City. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was working at a coffee shop, I was working at a restaurant, I was working as a wardrobe assistant for\u00a0\u2018And Just Like That,\u2019 I was doing these corporate coaching seminars,\u201d he continued. \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve told anybody this story, but I was doing these seminars where they\u2019d bring me into Blackrock and Blackstone and Goldman Sachs, and they would want to teach these young administrators how to have difficult conversations, \u00e0 la how to fire somebody. They would bring me in as an actor so that these administrators could get practice firing someone. So I have been fired more than anyone you\u2019ve ever met, I promise you. I\u2019ve been fired thousands of times. And then the call for\u00a0\u2018The Pitt\u2019\u00a0came in and everything was different.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHead over to Cultured\u2019s website<\/a> to read Ball\u2019s profile in its entirety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Pitt\u201d actor Patrick Ball broke down in tears while speaking to Cultured magazine and revealed how the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,181088,62820,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-520324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-patrick-ball","11":"tag-the-pitt","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}