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How Casting Directors Populated Over 300 Characters for ‘The Pitt’: ‘If You Say One Scripted Word, That Was Us’
Cathy Sandrich Gelfond and Erica Berger cast over 300 actors for "The Pitt," including Patrick Ball and Fiona Dourif.
The pair, who celebrate seven years of working together this month, have experience putting together impressive ensembles for shows like “Mayor of Kingstown” and “Love & Death.” But the HBO Max medical drama is a beast of its own. For Berger, one of the first people to spring to mind was Fiona Dourif, who plays Dr. Cassie McKay, a single mother with a mysterious ankle bracelet that hints at a past skirmish with the law. Katherine LaNasa, who plays charge nurse Dana Evans and shares a great rapport with Wyle, lives in Atlanta and originally auditioned via self-tape before Zooming with the team.
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