Fiona Dourif on McKay’s arrest, Brad Dourif

If it is a competition for those who earn the most to finally go home after the world’s longest hospital shift in Max’s ‘The Pitt’, few have a better case than Dr. Cassie Mckay.

Plays by Fiona Dourif, MCKAY is a competent, empathic doctor whose personal drama has even surpassed that of her patients, culminating this week’s 14th episode, AKA “20:00”, when she is arrested. But let’s make a backup.

All this season, MCKAY has passed a few crises, including the whisper about her single monitor mandated by the court and the arrival of her Deadbeat ex-Man Chad (Ron Heaps), who crushed a few bones who played the role of skateboardenda for their son, Harrison (Henry Samiri). Add the chaos of the mass casualty event and McKay decides to call in reinforcements to save Harrison.

In this week’s episode, the cavalry arrives with the introduction of McKay’s father, played by Dourif’s real father, Brad Dourif. Of course this is not the first time that the two have shared the screen. Since 2013 she has played an integral role in the recent TV series and film settings in the “Chucky” horror franchise, for which her father has given the voice and the human character since the debut of the Killer Doll in 1988. Although Dourif was delighted to have her father on set of her own project, she cannot take honor for the Clever Casting.

“My suspicion is that it was Noah’s idea,” says Dourif Variety. “He has talked to me about my father’s career before, so I know a device was needed to get Harrison at home, and it was probably thrown into the writers’ room as a very cool idea.”

Immediately it is clear where Mckay gets her empathetic way of bed – and her lead. First he comforts his daughter, hugs his grandson and then takes a shot at his former son -in -law. “Chadwick Harrison Ashcraft III,” he says with contempt. “A shower bag -name for a shower bag -man.” He calls them as if he sees them.

At the same time, MCKAY’s decision to defend Robby (Noah Wyl) in this never -ending service, also back to chase her this hour. She previously expressed his concern after a teenager named David (Jackson Kelly, who recently also played in the “Chucky” TV series) showed signs of anger and possibly intended violence towards girls in his high school while in the there with his mother, Teresa, Teresa (Joanna). Robby suggested that they were not involved, but McKay still called the police when David walked away. Since the massive shooting in Pittfest, McKay has wondered if David was the shooter, a little worse by his bloody return to the hospital in last week’s episode.

This episode confirms that the shooter was someone else who has since been murdered, so that Robby, Teresa and McKay left a hostile and hurt David. It is not going well, and it is made all the more difficult by Robby’s guideline to McKay that “you have made this damn mess, you will have to repair it.”

If her day was not bad enough, the police called Constant McKay, who eliminated her defective single monitor with an IO exercise during the chaos of the Pittfest trauma. After ignoring their phone calls too often, they appear to arrest her for the entire first aid.

Creeks with VarietyDourif spoke the humiliation of the climatic arrest for both her character and herself, whether Mckay has the feeling that she made a mistake with David and why her father made the character feel more on the set on the set.

McKay has experienced a lot in just a few hours. How do you think she will hold it around o’clock 14?

I think she has a very, very long day. There is a humiliation that plays with the ankle monitor, and then the confrontation with Chad in my workplace is a kind of her nightmare. That she could get herself in a position and it could lose it to the point that I would bear this thing, and then for this manchild to show for everyone I think it is pretty humiliating for her.

She also has her son to worry about in the other room. But luckily her father comes to get him, and he is played by your father, Brad Dourif. How did that all come together?

My suspicion is that it was Noah Wyle’s idea. He spoke with me about my father’s career in detail before, so I know there had to be a device to get Harrison at home and it was probably thrown into the writers room as a very cool idea. I was approached by [executive producer and episode writer] Simran Baidwan, and she wanted to get my permission very respectfully before they made an offer to my father – and I was happy. We were both delighted. It was really a gift and a very soft moment to shoot.

In the past you have clearly worked with your father several times, especially in the “Chucky” films and TV series. You even played a version of his ‘Chucky’ character in the TV series. But what was it like to act opposite each other in this medical environment, which is also new to you?

Everything about Mckay feels very close to home for me. It all feels like a new thing. I have usually worked in sci-fi and horror and genre stuff, which is my first love and I will always love those things. But those are wilder, kind of wild characters. This person is so close to Fiona that it gives me confidence, but it is also a bit scary because you like me or not. There is nowhere to hide. And when to bring my real father into the context of my father, we just performed the scene that felt a lot like it was just Brad talking to Fiona. The whole thing and really this whole show has felt surrealistic. I did not expect it to happen. I feel good luck.

What is more difficult: all this medical jargon spraying or trying to master your father’s ‘Chucky’ character?

It was probably easier to control my father’s voice. Well, and the secret is, that is usually done by make -up! There is actually very little lifting.

This episode marks a highlight of some of the stressors of McKay’s Day. We see the confrontation between her father and Chad and the exit of Harrison from the er. Then we see that she has to face the situation with David, who turns out not to be the Pittfest -Schutter. If you know this now, do you think Mckay regrets that he called the police?

I think MCKAY does not eventually know if she made the right call. The only thing she knows is that she did the very best she could do under the circumstances, and I think she gives herself a little praise for doing the brave thing. It was probably more difficult to go against Robby when the path of the least resistance was for him to call. But I think she will eventually save face for herself. McKay is a character who has made many bad decisions, especially in those late teenage years and early 20s where you feel that you are invincible. You can see those people who have made a bad decision and can never fully recover. So she looks at David as someone who is part of her tribe and eventually tries to help him.

In the second attempt to talk to David with his mother, McKay is visibly shaken by the meeting. Why do you think that the hair really touches at the moment? Because she is a mother whose son has literally been away in the last few hours?

Yes, and it is because she knows how easy it is to make the wrong decision. I think it is a bit like your heart is walking around your chest. She is also a single mother, just like Teresa. There are just a lot of parallels with her own life. Looking at those artists on the day, that scene was really quite difficult. If he screams for his mother, you could really feel it on the set. That often happened on ‘the pitt’, actually. The whole set would acclimatize what is going on. It was heavy stuff.

We have seen Robby a strong, but in the end a leading hand for the staff. But at the moment he tells McKay to repair her own mess. What do you think she thinks about this very blunt guideline?

I think she appreciates it. I think of McKay as someone who was not encrypted and appreciates directness and looks up to Robby. He is the backbone and the heart of the hospital. I think there was a frustration in her that he kicked the look on the road with initially a decision to make a decision about David, and I had to go behind his back and still do it. But he has enough integrity, which I think is the most impressive moment in this storyline, where he goes there and takes responsibility for it. He is an impressive person. He is also an impressive guy, Noah is WYLE. Very gracious, just an incredible team leader. It is true and it doesn’t always happen.

She seems to look for a place to place her feelings about David and at the end of the episode something to do good, to the nurses and asks if there are cases where she can jump.

McKay doesn’t really know how to deal with her life so well. I think she actually has a pretty bad personal life. She has made really bad decisions with men. I think that her life in fact takes care of her child and work, so this is the only job where she feels she knows how to give and function. All her life experiences are a bit pronounced at the moment, and they were not always good. They were quite harder than other people who are her colleagues. But they culminated in this one skill, which is the ability to connect and have empathy for people in fairly difficult situations because she has been there. She went to the party where the person was shot.

You said that her ankle monitor is a source of humiliation for McKay, so what does it do to make it so publicly called for everyone when she is arrested for switching it off?

It was a memory for her. Even filming was humiliating because it was this power of remembering that you are not good enough. It was that, and then it became furious about the situation and the injustice. Yet the inner thread is that it was my fault. Usually it is just total humiliation that it happens for everyone.

But we get a very short look before the episode cuts to black, where some of her colleagues such as Dana (Katherine Lanasa) and Langdon (Patrick Ball) jump to her defense. That should mean something for her when we pick up again in the final?

Yes, I think so. And so it feels very bad when we are filming. Everyone loves each other, which does not always happen. The hours are long, and everyone works every day, so especially after the massive victim, it felt as if we had joined this collective organism that I think it lends well to what would happen in that circumstance. It stops going with you and starts to ensure that this thing functions because the bet is so high.

Did it feel like “Groundhog Day” that went back to the same clothing and stories every day while you filmed this real -time season?

I really started to hate my hair around month six! I just wanted to get that ponytail.

This interview has been edited and condensed.