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[quote=Anonymous]Interesting Esquire interview with Noah Wylie:

Part of it (whole thing is a good read):

[b]The Pitt has also grappled with what's going on with young men in America right now—loneliness, hurt, and an identity crisis. Tell me about your goals for that aspect of the series.[\b]

Misunderstood is a really good way to start. Because that became what we really wanted the storyline to be in one form or another. David is not feeling seen or heard, and he's slipping through the cracks. It triggers all sorts of paranoia and feelings of judgment and bias. We wanted to play that out to have it be misunderstood that he was not actually responsible for this shooting and yet still will be punished for what in essence is a thoughtcrime. In reality, it's cautionary behavior that needs to be addressed. It speaks to this very interesting place we're living in where there is a problem and I'm not sure what the right remedy is.

It's really hard to get all of your self-esteem from a screen and all of your context for the world through a screen. … We were supposed to be brought together by this technology. It seems that the opposite has happened. We've all been sort of fragmented into a lot of different little micro bubbles, and some of them are really lonely places. I'm not being very articulate because I'm no expert.

[b]You are articulating this well.[\b]

I'm just speaking as a father of a 22-year-old son. I've been watching him and his friends try to negotiate manhood. It's not been easy, because any expression of budding manhood can also be interpreted as budding toxic masculinity. So I've watched my son have to figure out how to be a man but not too much of a man. Enjoy camaraderie but not have it be the kind of camaraderie that could be worrisome. It's just unfair and sad. If I tried to identify one general emotion out there, you could say it’s anger.

But I don't think anger is anger. I think it's sadness. Most people at heart just feel a little heartbroken and don't know how to express that. And so we all go about getting attention however we do. Sometimes it's positive, sometimes it's negative, but it's certainly attention, and you're certainly going to be seen and you're going to be heard one way or the other. That's what's at the root of it—everybody just wanted to be acknowledged. But man, it can go some pretty abhorrent ways if ignored.

[b]I feel like young men don't feel like they can talk like how we are now—a conversation about masculinity between two men and what that means today.[\b]

It's really interesting for me to talk about what I was trying to do with Robby in a sense, which is to at least display a different form of masculinity on television. He's a good, heroic, and complex guy. He's not perfect. He's got some temper. He's got some undealt-with pain. Ultimately, he's got to come to the realization that compartmentalizing his feelings and suppressing them isn't any healthier than it is for David. There needs to be an avenue of release and a safe community for conversation and healing to take place.

There's a lot of damage that gets done from suppressing this stuff. I'm a firm believer that undealt-with trauma, pain, and anger manifests itself in disease and sickness. What people carry around with them, health-wise, is what they're not dealing with emotionally, psychologically, spiritually. There's a very strong connection there. We all need to clean our attics and basements.

[b]Even in this episode, Robby tells Mel, "Never apologize for feeling something for your patients," which is really beautiful.[\b]

That's to retain your sense of humanity. Langdon gives her the same advice. The ER is tough on sensitive people, but it needs sensitive people. It needs sensitive people very badly. So you have to retain a sense of humanity and sensitivity without becoming so empathic that you take on the problems of the world and they become your problems at your own detriment—or so desensitized for your own survival that you can't connect human to human.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a64368020/noah-wyle-the-pitt-interview/[/quote]

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