The Pitt‘s Noah Wyle sprang into doctor mode to treat an injured co-star.
Laetitia Hollard’s elbow was “covered in blood” after she repeatedly nicked it on a counter, and the Emma Nolan actress thought the blood on the furniture piece was fake before Noah Wyle said it was hers.
Noah, 54, quickly assessed her elbow and dabbed the wound with a gauze soaked in disinfectant.
Recalling the Injury
Laetitia, 22, appeared on the latest episode of Warner Bros. TV’s A Lot More podcast and recalled the injury. It happened as they shot in a crowded “control hub” of the main set for season two, episode one.
She said, “[Emma] had this little moment where you see me enter in episode 1 with this notebook and all these things on me. And Dana (Katherine LaNasa) finally tells me, ‘Hey, you can go grab your notebook.'”
“I am so excited to grab it. I’m like, ‘Finally, I can use the tools that I brought here. I’m ready for this.’ So I had to squeeze past Noah to get my notebook, because he’s talking, and I’m like, ‘Oh my god, I’m being little shy Emma.”
“And every time I squeezed past, I would bump my elbow a little bit.”
Laetitia ignored the first few times she bumped it until the camera focused on her for a take.
The star continued, “Adrenaline just automatically is in my system. So I bump it again, and I go, and I get that notebook, and when I come back, when I reset, I see there’s like fake blood on the counter.”
“And I literally say to someone, ‘Who left fake blood here?’ And Noah goes, ‘I think you nicked yourself.’ I look at my elbow, it’s covered with blood.”
Wyle to the Rescue
Laetitia lauded Noah for swooping in to attend to her.
She said, “Noah was like, ‘Don’t worry, this is the best place for this to happen.’ And he brought me, he’s like, ‘You have so many medical professionals, and he became like Dr. Robby.”
“He brought me to a corner, he brought out the gauze, the disinfectant. I was like, ‘Wait, I’m in the Pitt right now.”
A real nurse eventually passed the duo, and Noah suggested that they attend to Laetitia, stating, “‘Not me. I’m pretending.'”
In March, Noah joked that passengers on board his flight to London may have thought he was a real doctor and expected him to help during a mid-flight medical emergency.