{"id":2224547,"date":"2026-01-06T17:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2224547"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:24:16","slug":"noah-wyle-compares-er-and-the-pitt-casts-with-a-subtle-dig-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/noah-wyle-compares-er-and-the-pitt-casts-with-a-subtle-dig-clowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Wyle compares \u2018ER\u2019 and \u2018The Pitt\u2019 casts with a subtle dig: &#8216;Clowns&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F01%2F118376685.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The doctor is in. <\/p>\n<p>Noah Wyle and his \u201cThe Pitt\u201d co-stars all went through a tough \u201cboot camp\u201d before production. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a fairly young ensemble, and certainly none of us have ever been doctors before, and we all had to start at a pretty high level of proficiency,\u201d Wyle, 54, said on \u201cCBS Sunday Morning.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really important that we [come] in a few weeks before we started shooting, learn how to put on your gloves, learn how to say the words, learn how to hold the instruments, learn how to move and think like a doctor, talk to doctors, go to the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Noah Wyle in \u201cER.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">Everett Collection \/ Everett Col<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Noah Wyle in \u201cThe Pitt.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Before \u201cThe Pitt,\u201d Wyle was best known for playing John Carter on \u201cER\u201d in over 250 episodes. The long-running <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/04\/entertainment\/george-clooney-reunited-with-these-er-co-stars-at-broadways-good-night-and-good-luck\/\">medical drama also starred George Clooney<\/a>, Julianna Margulies, Eriq La Salle, Anthony Edwards, and Laura Innes. It ran on NBC from 1994 to 2009. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will say that, you know, if this had been the \u2018ER\u2019 cast, and we\u2019d [been] asked to do three weeks of boot camp, you would have gotten six class clowns screwing around, not listening, playing with the gloves, [making] them into balloons, doing all sorts of crazy stuff,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Noah Wyle on Sunday Mornings.  <span class=\"credit\">CBS Sunday Morning<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In addition to Wyle, who also just won a Critics Choice award for \u201cThe Pitt,\u201d the HBO Max medical drama stars\u00a0Patrick Ball, Katherine LaNasa, Supriya Ganesh, Fiona Dourif, and Taylor Dearden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Pitt\u2019s\u201d young cast members \u201cwere not class clowns,\u201d said Wyle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese were first students. They were top students [who] picked this stuff up so fast that, as the old veteran who thought, \u2018I\u2019ve got such an advantage,\u2019 I was like, \u2018Oh, wow. Hey, I\u2019ve got to pick it up a little bit. These guys are really adept.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cER\u201d cast Alex Kingston, Eriq La Salle, Anthony Edwards, Gloria Reuben, Noah Wyle, Bottom, Laura Innes, George Clooney, Julianna Margulies, Maria Bello. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9NBC\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Gerran Howell, Amielynn Abellera, Noah Wyle, Sepideh Moafi, Supriya Ganesh in \u201cThe Pitt\u201d Season 2.  <span class=\"credit\">Warrick Page\/MAX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption> Noah Wyle, left, Mackenzie Astin and Rebecca Tilney, right, in a scene from \u201cThe Pitt.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe Pitt\u201d and \u201cER\u201d have more in common than medical themes and how the actors would do in \u201cboot camp.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The two shows have also <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/10\/entertainment\/the-pitt-star-noah-wyle-has-blunt-reaction-to-lawsuit-from-er-creators-estate\/\">been embroiled in a lawsuit,<\/a> as \u201cER\u201d creator Michael Crichton\u2019s widow has <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/08\/28\/entertainment\/er-creator-michael-crichtons-estate-sues-warner-bros-over-upcoming-hospital-drama-the-pitt\/\">alleged that \u201cThe Pitt\u201d<\/a> is a rebranded version of an unauthorized \u201cER\u201d reboot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In April, Wyle told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/noah-wyle-the-pitt-er-sequel-lawsuit-1236362824\/\">Variety<\/a> about the suit, \u201cThis taints the legacy, and it shouldn\u2019t have.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pitt Season 2 returns Jan 8.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The doctor is in. Noah Wyle and his \u201cThe Pitt\u201d co-stars all went through a tough \u201cboot camp\u201d before production. \u201cThis is a fairly young ensemble, and certainly none of us have ever been doctors before, and we all had to start at a pretty high level of proficiency,\u201d Wyle, 54, said on \u201cCBS Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2224548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[21741,309839,373207,321599,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2224547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo-max","tag-medical-dramas","tag-noah-wyle","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Noah-Wyle-compares-\u2018ER-and-\u2018The-Pitt-casts-with-a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224549,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224547\/revisions\/2224549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2224548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}