\u201cThere\u2019s a really great storyline about Medicare and Medicaid cuts and how it\u2019s hard to qualify in certain situations if you make above a certain income limit, even though that\u2019s still not really enough money to feed a number of people,\u201d Ganesh told TheWrap. \u201cIt\u2019s only going to get worse with the cuts that are happening in our real world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of absurd that you\u2019re thinking about money at all when you\u2019re making healthcare decisions, especially in emergencies,\u201d Ganesh continued, pointing to emergency situations in which patients opt not to take an ambulance to the hospital, or, in the case of a Season 2 storyline, not use insulin to treat their diabetes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope that someone power watches it, and feels something,\u201d Ganesh said.<\/p>\n
Through the healthcare storyline with Dr. Mohan\u2019s patient, Orlando, Ganesh notes that Season 2 gives audiences a chance to see how much empathy Samira has for her patients despite not matching that empathy in her personal life, pointing to her \u201ccontentious\u201d relationship with her mother.<\/p>\n
That relationship is on display in the Season 2 premiere, when Samira reveals she accepted a fellowship in New Jersey to be closer to her mother, but her mother has since sold their house and plans to travel with her new beau. While those plans appear to be falling through, Ganesh said \u201cit\u2019s up in the air\u201d whether Dr. Mohan will remain at the Pittsburgh hospital, noting that\u2019s how a real ER works: \u201cYou rotate out, you rotate in.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPittsburgh kind of felt like this very temporary place for her, and she really felt like she could throw herself into her career and only focus on that, but I think that catches up to her, because that\u2019s not a very healthy way to live your life,\u201d Ganesh said. \u201cNow her plans totally falling apart because her mom\u2019s not going to be there, so she\u2019s trying to scramble and trying to figure out how exactly she can feel like she has a semblance of footing here.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Noah Wyle, Ned Brower and Supriya Ganesh in \u201cThe Pitt.\u201d (Warrick Page\/HBO Max)<\/p>\n
Her work-life balance, or lack thereof, is a realization that began to occur to Samira following the mass casualty in Season 1, which Ganesh notes brought up a handful of mixed emotions. \u201cShe\u2019s realizing she\u2019s a hero at what cost \u2014 you need to have a really bad day to kind of have a good day,\u201d Ganesh said. \u201cAnd she doesn\u2019t really have anything else outside of this. She doesn\u2019t really have anyone she can decompress with.\u201d<\/p>\n
One added help to the ER this time around, however, is Sepideh Moafi\u2019s Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi, with whom both Samira and Mel (Taylor Dearden) worked under at the VA. While Dr. Al-Hashimi\u2019s entrance only served to shake things up for Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle), her presence has been a breath of fresh air for Samira.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor Samira, Dr. Robby is this mentor, where, in the past, she\u2019s had so much tension with him \u2014 I think a lot of that has gone away at the beginning of the season \u2014 It\u2019s not as intense as it was before, but I think she feels so much more aligned with Dr. Al-Hashimi,\u201d Ganesh said. \u201c[She] really feels like that\u2019s probably the one she can turn more towards and she really looks up to her, I think so there\u2019s probably a part of her that\u2019s really excited to see what an ER is going to look like with her heading it.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Ganesh noted she loves playing a character that so many women and women of color love, the actor recently drew attention to the struggles she faces as a woman of color on the show, calling out<\/a> journalists and others who have mixed up brown cast members on the show.<\/p>\n \u201cPSA there\u2019s more than one brown woman on our show,\u201d Ganesh\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0in a December post on X. \u201cIn the main cast, there were two last year and three (3!) this year!! Please stop mixing us up!! Especially if you\u2019re press, it\u2019s literally your job not to! Thank you!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n On the red carpet Season 2 premiere in early January, Ganesh revealed that the mix ups have happened eight times since the cast started doing press for Season 2 in the past month, some in \u201cvery public places.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI really want people to understand that the reason why, at least for me, it was really painful is because it makes me feel like either me or Shabana [Azeez] would have an easier time if one of us wasn\u2019t here,\u201d Ganesh said. \u201cThat\u2019s so hard, because she is the closest friend I have on this show and I\u2019m one of her closest friends on the show and I get so much from her and she gets so much from me.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Pitt\u201d Season 2 releases new episodes Thursdays 9 p.m. ET\/6 p.m. PT on HBO Max.<\/p>\n The post \u2018The Pitt\u2019 Star Supriya Ganesh on Highlighting Healthcare Cuts in Season 2: \u2018I Hope Someone With Power Watches It\u2019<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Note: This story contains spoilers from \u201cThe Pitt\u201d Season 2, Episode 1. Just as \u201cThe Pitt\u201d\u00a0highlighted issues plaguing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253,198749],"class_list":{"0":"post-414722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-supriya-ganesh"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}