With out cost nurse Dana Evans, Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Middle wouldn’t have the ability to run almost as easily because it does on The Pitt. And the Tv Academy acknowledged that, with Katherine LaNasa, for Excellent Supporting Actress in a Drama Collection, receiving one of many present’s 13 Emmy nominations on July 15.
“I’m simply so pleased with all people,” LaNasa tells TV Insider. Under, Katherine LaNasa opens up about that Emmy nomination, celebrating with The Pitt forged and crew, and extra.
Congratulations! Speak about discovering out in regards to the nomination as a result of it’s so nicely deserved.
Katherine LaNasa: My husband was right here to get a haircut from the hairdresser on the present, so he determined to return early in order that he might take heed to the nominations. And it simply occurred that we received a rest room break proper at 8:30. I don’t assume the ADs meant it. I used to be really standing behind them. It simply occurred to be that Noah requested to make use of the restroom then. And so then all of us received a break and I ran up right here. It was proper at 8:30, after which they introduced all people, however they didn’t do my class, and so they’re like, “And that’s it.” After which I stated, “I received to return down.” And my husband was making an attempt to look it up on-line. I used to be like, “I’ve to return to work.” So I went right down to work and so they have been rehearsing and it was a trauma scene the place I enter the scene. So I’m standing on the market and my make-up artist, who was additionally nominated, simply comes and he or she’s simply certainly one of my favourite individuals at work, she’s simply certainly one of my favourite individuals on this planet, and so she’s the one that allow me know. And so we have been simply quietly huddled, like hugging within the hallway, so it was actually, actually cool.
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And that’s wonderful to be on set of the present that you simply’re nominated for as a result of that doesn’t occur too typically.
I do know. It was actually cool. I’m simply additionally so pleased with all people. I imply, it was simply Noah Wyle and mainly a bunch of unknown individuals, after which this juggernaut got here out of it. I imply, it’s an amazingly gifted crew and extremely skilled writers, however all these youngsters, a number of them didn’t have very a lot expertise and we simply flung this factor collectively and it labored.
I noticed all of the celebration photographs and video from the set. What was that celebration like?
I haven’t seen something. I had an honest lunch break, however I used to be simply returning all my private texts. I haven’t actually even received on-line. It was simply enjoyable. My husband was on the market and my boss got here up, Scott Gemmill and the top author, and so they have been ready to go in and inform all people, after which Scott introduced all of the 13 nominations to the entire crew. We’re all actually tight. And so I feel it’s simply a number of pleasure. Everybody’s actually fairly humble, so I feel everybody’s simply tremendous comfortable for everyone. They’re identical to, God, that make-up and the particular results make-up, so most of the departments, so deserving. I simply thought that the directing, I simply thought all people was so deserving.
What in regards to the work that you simply put into your excellent efficiency and the character of Dana are you most proud to see acknowledged?
Effectively, I’m proud that I pulled off that Pittsburgh accent as a result of I’m from Louisiana, so a number of tears. Obtained to thank Susanne Sulby, who was one of many those who labored on Mare of Easttown. I used to be listening to Mare of Easttown within the bathtub for the seventeenth time, and I had let it run the final episode, after which the extras simply got here on. After which I discovered the dialect coach from that who directed me to Susanne, who’d accomplished a lot of the different actors, and so she’s the one that actually helped me. So for me, that was the factor that was the largest leap, the factor that I didn’t know if I might do. I feel I didn’t know if I might try this. I feel I had an innate sense of who the individual was, and I don’t actually know the place that got here from. It’s type of like there’s slightly little bit of performing that’s type of magic. Generally you have to be proper for one thing, you’re simply okay at it, and typically you’re not likely that individual in any respect, like Dana, and he or she simply got here into my creativeness.
Which scenes specifically particularly stand out you from Season 1 now trying again?
I don’t know. I simply need to go along with how they really feel. I actually appreciated, it’s a really transient scene that I had with Jake [Taj Speights] after he misplaced his girlfriend. I simply go over and provides him a hug. I assumed that was a extremely stunning, very tiny scene. I appreciated doing the scene with Mel [Taylor Dearden] within the hallway when she was on the steps, and I simply inform her she doesn’t need to know all of the solutions, and I beloved the scene in chairs after I get to interrupt up the combat, I’m like, “This ain’t Philly!” I imply, that’s simply actor enjoyable to simply get to be that massive and loud. I typically like these scenes in films. I do know lots of people assume that issues are overacting once they’re enormous, however I feel typically watching somebody explode is de facto satisfying. So it was enjoyable to additionally get to be the individual doing that scene.
What stands out is Dana is de facto the glue that holds this ED collectively, and I really feel like due to your efficiency.
Oh, I don’t know. I didn’t know — I type of had this sense going into it that they needed this type of very equitable really feel on the set, and so they have been anticipating that of all of us. So I had a sense that the important thing to the character and in addition to Katherine taking part in the character was humility, that all the things ought to simply really feel like being of service. And so I feel that’s perhaps what got here by means of.
On the finish of Season 1, there was this query about whether or not or not Dana would return to work. Very glad to see that she does.
You and me each!
What are you able to share although about how Dana’s doing after this time soar?
Not an excessive amount of, however the fact is that I don’t know the place she’s going to go. I do know that I can simply say that it’s a considerably modified Dana from having gone by means of that have and that I feel Scott stated that in the event that they didn’t give it 10 months, an honest period of time, they didn’t actually really feel like they might have Dana again straight away. … What’s vital about today is that it’s Langdon’s [Patrick Ball] first day again, so he’s simply out of rehab, so he’s again. In order that’s essentially the most vital factor in regards to the day.
Are you able to say if Dana’s emotions about Langdon have modified from that scene we received of them within the finale?
I can not say how Dana feels about Langdon anymore.
Talking of Langdon, you have been so good in that scene within the finale as a result of we see how a lot Dana is holding in what she’s been going by means of and having everybody else depend on her when she’s wanted somebody.
It’s humorous that you simply talked about that. It’s actually laborious for me to see myself, however I might say while you’re speaking about standout scenes, that was a scene that was significantly enjoyable to do. I imply, working with John Wells — and he directed that — it’s doing a play and he simply permits for lots of freedom and he additionally simply asks questions and pushes you to in a manner that reveals much more that you simply than you thought was on the web page. I went into that scene pondering, I’m simply type of presupposed to be robust on Langdon, so he feels squeezed and he doesn’t have anyplace to go, and I assumed it was Langdon’s story, Langdon’s storyline, and you then’re sitting right here telling me that you simply felt such as you noticed all of this about Dana, and John introduced that out by the questions he requested or what he needed to see, and it made his drawback my drawback as a result of I care about him a lot, and I didn’t know I used to be going to get to that. I imply, I like John Wells. He’s actually a grasp.
One of the crucial vital and greatest and regular relationships on the present is Dana and Robby. While you’re speaking about that relationship and also you’re going into Season 2, are you speaking about it as a relationship that has to maintain evolving in a serious manner or are you taking a look at it as extra of a relationship that’s the regular calm that it was in Season 1?
I can’t say an excessive amount of about what’s occurring with us, however I do assume that you simply’ve received to appreciate that Dana’s been there 30 years. I do know precisely what Robby’s story is, however he’s round my age, so I feel he’s been there most likely fairly a very long time as nicely. So I do see them extra as a sister and brother, like an enormous sister, slightly brother. I do assume that that’s pretty secure.
Yeah, it’s so good. You and Noah collectively are so good.
He’s nice. He’s the very best.
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There was some nice Dana and Collins (Tracy Ifeachor) moments in Season 1 and now, Collins isn’t returning. Are you able to say, are we going to see Dana leaning on anybody else and have comparable scenes like that with none specifics?
I don’t know. We’re simply in the course of three. They don’t give us a lot upfront. There’s a number of medical issues I do know that I’m going to want to arrange for, so I do know these issues, however I do not know. There’s sure issues I must get an schooling about with the intention to do them higher or appear extra like an actual nurse after I do them. So that they give attention to that, however they don’t inform me the place I’m going, and I don’t ask. I type of like to simply play what they wrote as we’re going and never fear about the place it’s going to go.
Talking of the medical stuff, as a result of I do know there was the bootcamp for season one, how a lot of a bootcamp was there for Season 2, or was it type of simply brushing up on the issues from Season 1? And may you speak about that bootcamp course of generally?
There was some stuff, as a result of there’s some new stuff that’s going to occur in Season 2, so there was some movies to observe. There was some stuff to bear. It’s not enjoyable. It’s all simply tremendous intense, however it was solely a day or two, after which I really went again to the hospital once more, went again to County once more, and I’m going to do some extra work at some completely different clinics and issues to get some schooling on among the new storylines.
How a lot of that bootcamp for Season 1 helped you actually form the character of Dana?
Loads. You realize what actually helped me can also be a man there that may be a massive medical educator within the emergency area, and he’s now on the writing workers. However simply to see these guys within the emergency medication area, they love John Wells as a result of he introduced a lot consideration to their work that John is in a position to herald simply the very best of the very best on this emergency medication area to advise us and to see how exterior of labor, how emotional they have been about their work and about what individuals had gone by means of since COVID and issues like that, it simply made me see the toll it takes on individuals, how a lot they care. I requested a easy query of certainly one of our advisors and answering me, it made him cry about what was an excellent day and what was a nasty day, and also you simply received to really feel it. I feel that was essentially the most, was actually seeing how deeply affected they’re by their work and the way a lot they bear and the way a lot they maintain, and the way a lot they maintain in most likely to go house to their households.
Are you able to say one phrase to explain Dana and one phrase to explain the present for Season 2?
I don’t know the place Season 2’s going. As far as The Pitt, I might say thrilling. Dana, Cool.
The Pitt, Season 2, January 2026, HBO Max