00:04Hey, how you doing?
00:06Hi, hi. Nice to see you. I'm Damiano Panattoni from Italy Movie Player. Hi.
00:10Hi.
00:10So, in the beginning, Empathy is the core of the show, and I ask you, is Empathy a superpower nowadays?
00:20Yeah, I think that that's what the show's about. I think that it's why people tune in.
00:25I think seeing people care so much about another person as these real-life ER docs and nurses that we
00:34play do,
00:37and the way that they put themselves on the line for people, I think, particularly in today's America,
00:43is just very comforting to see. I think it's really the linchpin of the show, like you said.
00:51Yeah, Empathy is not really my thing, but...
00:56But I'm glad there's an audience for it.
00:59No, I think that is the story that we're telling, and I think it's a real gift to be able
01:05to put these people forward
01:09that commit their entire lives to helping others and trying to do the next right thing
01:13and make sacrifices of their own personal health and well-being for the betterment of others.
01:18I think those are people that deserve to be celebrated, and I'm glad that we get the opportunity to...
01:23Patrick's learning about Empathy through this role.
01:25Yeah.
01:26It's something, an interesting topic he's going to study now.
01:29Yeah, I think it's... I think there's something there.
01:31There's something there.
01:35When did you realize that The Pit is something special?
01:40When Catherine Lanos won an Emmy.
01:44No, I think we didn't know.
01:47We didn't know.
01:48Season one, we spent eight months making this thing sort of in a vacuum,
01:51and none of us were quite sure if it was going to work or not.
01:54We... I knew that I liked the show that we were making, but we didn't know what sort of audience
01:59it would find
02:00because it's very sort of medicine-forward and science-forward, and I was like,
02:04oh, maybe this isn't entirely accessible.
02:08And then whenever the show came out, the medical community initially really embraced us,
02:15which was amazing because that's who we wanted to make it for.
02:18And so we're like, okay, great.
02:20Great.
02:20Doctors like it.
02:21Nurses like it.
02:22That's amazing.
02:23Mission accomplished.
02:24And then somewhere later down the line, that's whenever other people that weren't necessarily
02:32immediately involved in medicine started to get into it, and that was a real unexpected treat.
02:40And I don't think any of us predicted what has happened.
02:43No.
02:44I think we were all so close to it, and we loved making it, so we desperately wanted it to
02:49work.
02:49So it wasn't until I watched it when it came out on television with my friends and my family,
02:55and everyone was like, oh, my God, I love it.
02:57They were sincerely into it.
03:00And I saw Noah the next day, and I was like, I think we have a hit.
03:04Yeah.
03:06A doctor is always under pressure.
03:08How do you handle pressure in your work?
03:14Do you feel pressure?
03:16Pressure at work?
03:17Well, for me, any pressure that I feel, I try to abate it by just doing what I need to
03:25do.
03:25I used to have a friend that would say, see the work, do the work.
03:30You know, I've always been a performer, and I think being a performer in general is almost like being a
03:35professional athlete.
03:36Like, you have to do the thing at the time.
03:38You know what I mean?
03:39The lights are up.
03:40The director's there.
03:41The camera's ready.
03:42You've got to do it now.
03:43And so it's this kind of see the work, do the work attitude has helped me through, you know, all
03:50of my anxiety.
03:51Just do it.
03:52Just do it.
03:53The Nike, that should be an ad.
03:55That should be a tagline.
03:57Just do it.
03:58Just do it.
03:59Yeah.
04:00Just do it.
04:00Oh, it is.
04:02Maybe that can be the tagline for season two.
04:05Yeah.
04:05Just do it.
04:09The show says community is the holy thing that can save us.
04:14Do you agree with that?
04:16I actually do agree with that.
04:18I think community is something really important in my own life, to be honest with you.
04:22It's something I always try to establish in my own neighborhood and to be involved in my daughter's school.
04:27And I don't know what it is.
04:29It's, you know, I've been public about having a cancer journey.
04:31And I felt very uplifted by my own community during that time.
04:38Even like the fact that my radiologist came in early on the last day of my radiation so that I
04:45could go to the first job I'd gotten in like a year and go to New York that day.
04:49You know, it's just community is everything.
04:52And I think there's a certain vulnerability to allowing yourself to be helped, you know.
04:58And there's a certain pride in being able to give that help and to be able to be both players
05:05in that equation is really beautiful and where it's at.
05:09Yeah, I think it's never been more important to talk about in this moment where we are increasingly more and
05:15more isolated behind our phones, sort of being sort of split up and drug about by the great algorithm in
05:25a way that I think has been quite erosive to the collective mental health.
05:31And I think bringing people together and sharing community and I think that's an essential part of well-being.
05:41I think for anybody that is struggling with addiction or mental health, I think being in a room with other
05:50people that are bravely sharing their experiences with you and having your experiences reflected back to you, I think is
05:59some of the best medicine somebody can prescribe.
06:01So I think community is very important and I aspire to be part of one.
06:09Thank you.
06:10Thank you.
06:11Thank you.
06:11Thank you.
06:12Thank you.
06:13Bye.
06:13Ciao.
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