"When Laëtitia Hollard showed up for medical boot camp with her fellow on-screen nurses ahead of filming The Pitt Season 2, she didn't realize the show's doctors would be doing their prep on the same day. "It was literally everybody there. ... Noah [Wyle]'s leaning on his chair, squeezing a stress ball," she tells Bustle over Zoom. "It gave '80s cool-kid corner from a movie. And I was walking in like the geek with my notebook, like, 'Hi, guys!'""
"Emma goes through her share of trying moments during her first day in The Pitt's titular emergency department, dealing with everything from maggots to a medically induced erection that won't go down. But in Episode 7 on Feb. 19,Hollard's character is involved in one of the show's most moving patient storylines yet. Along with nurse Dana (Katherine LaNasa) and Dr. Al-Hashimi ( Sepideh Moafi), Emma helps a young woman, Ilana (Tina Ivlev), who was sexually assaulted at a Fourth of July barbecue."
Hollard attended medical boot camp with on-screen nurses and unexpectedly encountered the show's doctors preparing the same day. The set atmosphere showed veteran actors relaxing while Hollard entered nervous and notebook in hand. She had recently graduated from Juilliard and researched nursing by asking aspiring nurses about daily rewards, difficulties, and motivations. Emma Nolan faces traumatic and challenging first-day cases in the emergency department, from maggots to a medically induced erection. In Episode 7, Emma, nurse Dana, and Dr. Al-Hashimi assist Ilana, a young woman sexually assaulted at a Fourth of July barbecue. The cast learned from sexual assault nurse examiners during a visit to Stuart House.
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