The Pitt has simply wrapped up its first season, and followers are already excited about the second. The Max medical drama, which brings ER vet Noah Wyle again to the style and surrounds him with a solid of much less acquainted faces, has left individuals excited by completely each character. One of many characters that folks have linked with essentially the most is that of Dr. Jack Abbott, performed by Shawn Hatosy.
Hatosy may not be as well-known as Wyle, however he’s something however new to Hollywood. He’s had roles within the movies In & Out, The College, Anyplace however Right here, and Alpha Canine, amongst others, and he starred as Detective Sammy Bryant on the TNT crime drama Southland and Andrew “Pope” Cody within the TNT crime drama Animal Kingdom.
It’s his position as Dr. Abbott, and notably, the revelations about his character in The Pitt season finale, which have individuals questioning about Hatosy, nevertheless. Notably after the revelation that Dr. Jack Abbott is a single-leg amputee. Is that true for Hatosy as properly? Does Shawn Hatosy have an amputated leg in actual life?
Does Shawn Hatosy have an amputated leg in actual life?
The reply isn’t any. Hatosy isn’t an amputee in actual life, like his character. The actor, who has additionally appeared on Chicago P.D. in a recurring position this season as Deputy Chief Reid, nevertheless, knew this reality about his The Pitt character from early on. Chatting with US Weekly, Hatosy mentioned, “I knew from the start. This revelation on the finish is a giant shock to lots of our characters who simply met Abbott that day. Nevertheless it’s additionally a giant shock for the viewers.”
After all, the reveal is barely doable as a result of everything of the primary season of The Pitt takes place in at some point, with each episode going over what occurs in a single hour within the emergency division of the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital.
Producer R. Scott Gemmill instructed The Hollywood Reporter that Abbott’s army previous was additionally one thing they stored in thoughts when the hospital confronted a mass casualty occasion. “We wished to make Abbot a vet, and his expertise in these situations, these conditions, inform him considerably as a health care provider.”
“And after we received to see how properly he carried out throughout the mass casualty as a result of he’s been in, sadly, these sorts of conditions earlier than, and that appeared like if he suffered an damage, a fairly important one, on account of that, I feel it makes for a extra attention-grabbing and a extra sympathetic character.”
The plan was all the time to disclose Abbot’s army previous and his prosthetic leg on the finish of the season, in accordance with Gemmill. “So we knew that that was going to be a reveal from the get-go but additionally not going to be revealed till the very, nearly the final second of the present.”
It occurs precisely so. Robby and Abbot be a part of a few of the others within the park for a beer, with Abbott taking off his prosthetic leg. That is the place followers discover out his proper leg has been amputated from the knee down. Contemplating the shocked appears to be like, this isn’t precisely a well known reality.
“Actually it’s within the final scene, and that was actually simply to see that he’s a doctor who has misplaced part of his leg. He’s not a man with a part of his leg who grew to become a doctor,” Gemmill additionally mentioned. “So he actually, it’s actually simply extra about who he’s. And we didn’t need to make a giant deal about it. It was simply to indicate that, you already know, in order that no person judged him forward of time. And on the finish, it’s a giant, hopefully a great reveal, and also you understand it has by no means slowed him down one bit.”