EXCLUSIVE: As production continues in Los Angeles on HBO Max‘s The Pitt Season 3, six actors have joined the recurring cast: Pruitt Taylor Vince (Superman), Malachi Beasley (A House of Dynamite), Cheyenne Perez (The Sex Lives of College Girls), Jeremy Radin (The Accountant 2), Charlz Williams (Seal Team), and Rosanny Zayas (The L Word: Generation Q).
The Pitt chronicles the urgent challenges U.S. frontline healthcare professionals face through the lens of the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency department. Offering a real-time format, the series traces, hour by hour, the medical cases and personal crises physicians and nurses must navigate as they reckon with an overabundance of patients and a lack of resources.
There aren’t many details regarding Season 3 as of yet, except for the timeline when it will take place, which is around 4 months after the events of Season 2.
Wyle noted in May, “It’s set in early November, just before the holidays, ushering in a whole new set of emergencies and confrontations and complications.”
Both Veterans Day and Thanksgiving are celebrated in November. So to be a little more specific, Season 3 will take place after Veterans Day, but before Thanksgiving, sources close to production told me recently.
In a post-mortem for Season 2, Wyle teased what’s ahead for his character Dr. Robby’s future: “Well, I think we’ll find out what that rock bottom looks like next year.”
Season 3 will also focus on medicare cuts.
“When you have characters that are as rich and diverse and as multi-dimensional as the ones that we have, it’s very easy to just sort of plot them into the future and figure out what they would be struggling with at that point. But, obviously these cuts in Medicare, the ones that are going to affect Americans and put them off the rolls, hospital closures, there’s all sorts of very pressing issues that are facing hospitals and health care workers in America, and we’ve only scratched the surface,” he said in March.
The series stars Noah Wyle, Katherina LaNasa, Sepideh Moafi, Patrick Ball, Isa Briones, Shawn Hatosy, Taylor Dearden, Fiona Dourif, Supriya Ganesh, Shabana Azeez and Gerran Howell. Ganesh will not be returning for Season 3. Azeez’s character Victoria Javadi will not be in ER when the show returns, as she will be busy working on her psychiatry rotation.
Ayesha Harris, who previously recurred on the hit medical drama, was upped to series regular for Season 3. Her character, Dr. Parker Ellis, a senior resident working the night shift, will pivot to the day shift when the show returns. Harris will be the only new series regular for Season 3.
Details regarding who the newly added supporting cast will play can be found below.
Vince will play Lance Candella (aka The Professor), an Emergency Department patient.
Beasley will play Student Doctor Taj Osei.
Perez will play Student Doctor Marisol Elena Sambrano Monterossa.
Radin will play Grant Emerson, an Emergency Department patient.
Williams will play Angus Gunn (aka Trigger), an Emergency Department patient.
Zayas will play Physician Assistant Vera Delgado.
The Pitt is produced by John Wells Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, where JWP is under an overall deal. R. Scott Gemmill created the series and serves as an executive producer alongside John Wells, Simran Baidwan, Joe Sachs, Michael Hissrich, and Eli Attie.
Vince is represented by The Burstein Company and Artium Talent; Beasley is represented by The Gersh Agency and Door 24; Radin is represented by SAKS&; Williams is represented by Embrace Real Artists and Sheer Talent Management LLC.; Zayas is represented by Buchwald, Monica Villarreal, Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson, & Christopher.
