„The Pitt“-Star Fiona Dourif erzählt, was Noah Wyle nach ihrer Besetzung zu ihr sagte – und es traf wirklich ein
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**From Culture reporter Njera Perkins:**
It’s a sunny January afternoon in Burbank, California, and Fiona Dourif greets me with a warm smile and a noticeable pep in her step as we meet up on the Warner Bros. lot.
Dourif stars on “The Pitt” as the empathetic Dr. Cassie McKay, the 40-something single mother and former addict, now a third-year resident still juggling a hectic work-life balance.
“It’s a shame we can’t have people here when we’re shooting, ’cause it’s wild to watch,” Dourif said of the carefully orchestrated dance the cast and crew perform each time they clock in to the fictional ER.
When “The Pitt” put out the casting call for McKay, she was described as “somebody who took a long time and a lot of twists and turns to get into medical school” and “had a full and complicated life.”
“I think the sentence was, ‘No matter how bad it gets in the hospital, she always knows it could be worse,’” Dourif recalled reading. “When I read that, I was like, that’s something that I have.”
Sure enough, McKay is a character who feels closer to Dourif’s own life than any she has ever played before, particularly in the ways she gets knocked down by hardships and still finds the will to keep going. That includes when the actor lost her late psychic mother, Joni Dourif, in 2015 to mental illness.
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I don’t know if it’s the writing or the acting but it just works!
Fml just realized shes brad dourifs kid…. kinda explains his cameo in season 1
Wyle said she was the actress was who the show’s decision makers believed could have been an addict or had gone thru a lot.
Read the full arrival. Patently missed the quote.
Headlines weird.
I love her on the show – so warm and compassionate—congrats to her on her success
Which just means they watched her FREAKIN‘ INCREDIBLE performance on „Dirk Gently…“
After that show, I’d believe she could be any damn thing she wanted to be.
Is she related to Brad Dourif, one of the finest character actors of all time?