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While chatting with THR at the 2026 Actor Awards red carpet, Gerran Howell reacts to the fan edits and fan art of his character Dr. Whitaker on 'The Pitt.' Plus, he shares his favorite Nurse Dana one-liner and what fans can expect for the remainder of season two.

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00:00Now, I am really from Nebraska. I'm from Omaha, Nebraska, so I'd like to thank you for the Nebraska representation.
00:05You're welcome. I hope I did it justice. How's the accent?
00:10It's good. I mean, it's kind of a neutral accent.
00:14It is. That's what I was told and that's what I went with, so thank you.
00:18But this season, what's it like showing this kind of new, more mature side of Whitaker, where he's really coming
00:23to his own?
00:24Yeah, well, I mean, it's 10 months on. I don't think Whitaker would have survived being the way he was.
00:30A year on, so there's that. But yeah, it's lovely to show that side of him.
00:35He's taken on a lot of responsibilities and, you know, his personality is starting to kind of blossom a little
00:43bit.
00:43And it's less terror this year, but it's still a little bit. So it's been fun.
00:49I feel like I see a lot of Whitaker fan edits on TikTok, fan theories. Do you pay attention to
00:54any of that?
00:55No, I mean, you know, there are things that have been put in front of me and it's all really
01:02beautiful.
01:03Some of the art is so lovingly done.
01:07But, you know, I try to keep away from the stuff that is obviously for the fans to appreciate and
01:13I'm sure some of them will be mortified if they knew the actors were seeing it.
01:18You know what I mean? So it's for them. I'll leave it to them.
01:22But I love it. It's very flattering, mostly.
01:27TikTok has also been loving Nurse Dana this season and her one liners. Do you have a favorite Nurse Dana
01:33one liner?
01:34It's easy. Baby Jane Doe, Baby Jane Doe. Yeah, nothing beats that really at this point.
01:41But she's got some zingers coming up if they keep them in. So, yeah, wait for that.
01:46How did the cast feel about how that took off? Were you surprised that, you know, the fans latched on
01:51to Baby Jane Doe the way that they did?
01:54No, because I remember when we all we all heard it in the read through and we're all like it
01:59was like an earworm.
02:01I think we were all saying it to each other the next day. Baby Jane Doe, Baby Jane Doe.
02:06It's amazing. It rolls off the tongue. So, yeah.
02:09And what can you share about what we can see from Whitaker the rest of this season?
02:14Well, I mean, there's a lot of the shifts left, you know, so without giving anything away, you know,
02:21the shift doesn't tend to get easier on days like this and at the kind of position we're at now
02:29in the season.
02:30So it's not easy. But, yeah, you'll see. Sorry. Very ambiguous.
02:35I know you can't say much, but I'm asking everybody, since we're celebrating both movies and TV tonight,
02:41the Oscars are coming up. What's your pick for Best Picture?
02:44Best Picture? You know, for me, the thing that keeps sticking in my head is one battle after another.
02:49I just really, really loved it. I'm a big, like, PTA fan, and it was the best PTA film I
02:58think I've ever seen.
02:59It was great. Yeah. So rooting for that.
03:01That was great.
03:01It was great.
03:08You
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