"“I don't think I talked to Jalen at all when we were filming The Pitt. I was very much just in my trailer, like, trying to stay out of the way,” Abdalla tells Bustle. But in the waiting room for Off Campus chemistry reads, they had a warm reunion. “I walked in, and he was so sweet and came right up to me and was like, 'Oh my god, hi, it's so good to see you!'”"
"“He told me that I would just stare a lot on the set of The Pitt, which made me so insecure,” she recalls with a laugh. Of course, given the high-stakes frenzy of the medical drama, taking a moment to tune out makes sense! After all, playing a patient on is no small feat. As Brooks points out, “Last time when I saw her, she was locked in. She was doing a really good performance, and [her character] had just overdosed. It was really intense.”"
"That she could so seamlessly take on such a different role in Off Campus only highlighted her acting chops. “Ally being this happy-go-lucky person, you're like, Wow, you are so talented. She's amazing,”"
Jalen Thomas Brooks and Mika Abdalla appear in Prime Video’s Off Campus after working on The Pitt. Brooks plays Nurse Mateo on The Pitt and plays hockey player John Tucker in Off Campus. Abdalla plays Jenna, a patient in The Pitt’s Season 1, and plays Allie in Off Campus. In The Pitt, Mateo helps wheel Jenna into the hospital after a drug overdose. Abdalla describes a reunion in the Off Campus waiting room, where Brooks greeted her warmly. Brooks also noticed that Abdalla stared a lot on The Pitt set, which made her feel insecure. Abdalla and Brooks reflect on the intensity of performing overdose scenes and on Abdalla’s ability to shift into a happy-go-lucky character.
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