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The Pitt doesn’t shy away from the more disgusting parts of the human body. Katherine LaNasa, who plays Dana Evans, recently spoke about the most disgusting moment on the set of The Pitt Season 2.
She had to learn to pronounce the word «campylobacter» which means something unpleasant. “It’s bacteria in poop or something. I don’t know,” LaNasa told Deadline. “It’s something horrible. It’s something really gross. Sometimes they have stuff that is so gross.”
The Pitt featured a close-up view of a childbirth, a patient using a bedpan for its intended purpose in front of a medical student, and a patient peeing on someone trying to help him. “There was something I did already [for season 2] and I told the producer that I think I needed some jewelry for it. Like he needed to give me some diamonds,” LaNasa told Deadline. “You’ll see. It’s in Episode 2. It’s disgusting.”
“I got outside my body when it’s happening,” she added. “I prepare myself to just go outside my body when it happens.”
LaNasa also mentioned to Deadline how she had an emotional reaction to walking onto The Pitt’s set for the first time, because she had been in a hospital herself for breast cancer. “When I first walked onto the set I was a little triggered by it because after you have cancer, all you do is go to the hospital,” she said. “I was only about six months out of going to the hospital when I got the job and I was like, ‘Oh, I’m back at the hospital,’ but it went away really quickly. The feeling of being a little averse to the set went away really quickly.”
The Pitt Is Gearing Up For Season 2
Bits and pieces are starting to come out about the plot of The Pitt Season 2. It’ll be set over a Fourth of July celebration, and just before Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) leaves for a much-needed motorcycle holiday. Unfortunately, he’s scheduled to work a shift with Dr. Langdon (Patrick Ball) whose addiction to drugs in the first season badly hurt Robby.
“Langdon has walked the penitent road and he has done everything he needs to do to keep his medical license in check,» Wyle told Vanity Fair. «He’s going to face his colleagues who may or may not know that he had an addiction problem. All of that is very commendable. But there’s a personal betrayal that Robby feels that is going to be even harder for him to get up and over on the other side of.”
Dana will be facing a major challenge as well. “The guy punching Dana in her place where she has so much pride [in season 1], it really ripped that from her — it was very humiliating,” LaNasa told the same publication. “I think it brought forth all of her grief, and so she had to deal with that. I imagine that Dana goes to her grief meetings now. And there are other new things that we’ll see in her.”
The Pitt returns on Jan. 8, 2026.
