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HBO Max's The Pitt broke the mold on how to film TV by, get this, filming everything in order
The Pitt’s Katherine LaNasa says the HBO Max medical drama films their scenes in order, breaking a longstanding norm for television dramas
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The Pitt likes to do things a bit differently.
The HBO Max medical drama tries to be as authentic as possible, which includes things like giving their cast members medical training and building one of the most realistic hospital sets. According to Dana Evans actress Katherine LaNasa, the show also breaks a longtime television norm.
“Usually when you do a show, you’ll shoot everything that gets shot inside trauma one, and then everything that gets shot inside the boss’s office, and then in different days you shoot all these different things. On our show, we go from scene one to scene two to scene three to scene four to scene five to scene six to scene seven, you know, like that,” Katherine LaNasa says during an appearance at ATX TV Festival.
According to LaNasa, there’s a method to the madness, since this style of filming makes it easier to track the continuity when it comes to blood on hospital scrubs.
“That way the set could age and they didn’t have to go back and say, ‘Oh, there was blood. There’s not blood.’ They just shot it in order like a play.”
It’s just one of the many little touches that makes The Pitt different, but also authentic.
The Pitt season 1 is streaming on HBO Max.
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