Two Dourifs are higher than one!
Fiona Dourif shared the display screen along with her dad Brad Dourif on the newest episode of the Max hit medical drama The Pitt. The veteran actor is thought for his work within the Chucky and Lord of the Rings franchises, and 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the latter of which earned him an Oscar nomination.
Fiona, 43, tells ipromiseyoumedia in an unique interview that she was “delighted” to work along with her dad, 75, once more after that they had not too long ago costarred within the Chucky tv sequence.
“The producers got here up and requested me, and I bought just a little emotional,” she says of his casting. “I had simply labored with him for the primary time ever on display screen very briefly within the final season of Chucky, the place I really performed him. I used to be in 4 and a half hours of prosthetics, however the scene was really fairly temporary.”
The Pitt follows a gaggle of healthcare staff in a Pittsburgh emergency room throughout a 15-hour shift. Fiona performs second yr resident and loving mom Cassie McKay. After her ex suffers a fall whereas skateboarding with their school-aged son, they’re each rushed to the hospital. Because the dad is wheeled away for therapy, their son is taken to attend within the worker break room till the tip of his mother’s shift.
Nevertheless, a mass capturing happens at a close-by music competition and the hospital is left coping with the horrific fallout. Earlier episodes teased that McKay’s dad and mom had been coming to select up her son. And precisely who that may be is revealed within the April 3 episode, titled “8:00 P.M.,” as none aside from Brad.
With the sequence admittedly being Fiona’s largest function but, she felt thrilled to have her dad by her aspect on set. “The entire thing was very thrilling,” she says. “And within the scene, he says to me, ‘I am happy with you.’ There was this second the place it was very clear that it was my dad saying that to me concerning the [acting] job. There have been so many parallels. I feel we had been each just a little emotional about it.”
“It was a very lovely day for the Dourifs,” Fiona provides.
The actress shares that she is pleased with the connection her and her supportive dad have cultivated, particularly in maturity. “He is happy with me and I am very happy with him,” she says. “Now we have an in depth relationship, which does not at all times occur as an grownup. As a result of we’re in the identical profession, we find yourself working collectively and spending time collectively in a means that adults do not get to do with their dad and mom. It is a wonderful factor that I am very grateful for.”
Whereas the True Blood alum was nervous to costar along with her dad in his legendary horror franchise, her expertise on The Pitt felt fully completely different. “It was simply pure delight. I had delight pumping by my physique as a result of he is a really particular particular person and an excellent actor,” she explains. “We actually belief one another. I may simply have a look at him and the dynamic is there. I do not suppose I used to be nervous. I used to be simply delighted.”
After touchdown her function within the medical drama sequence, Fiona turned to Brad for recommendation, provided that he as soon as performed a physician on the HBO sequence Deadwood.
“I positively requested for some recommendation about the entire medical jargon and how one can get it to a spot the place it’s easy,” the actress says. “He informed me to repeat the strains 40 occasions, which I did at the start of the season. I might get to realize it so nicely that it was like a track I may sing.”
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Along with having a private connection to her character by their shared patriarch, she additionally feels that McKay is an extension of her personal persona. “McKay is like me on my greatest day,” Fiona says, noting that it makes taking part in her “scarier and tougher since you surprise, ‘Is it okay if I do not really feel like I am doing something?'”
“There’s additionally this concern I’ve,” she continues. “It is like, when you guys don’t love McKay, you do not like me. It feels very susceptible. It feels way more susceptible than taking part in a grimy monster, which has kind of been my profession up till now.”
The present premiered to main success, rapidly cementing itself as Max’s most-watched title globally, and has already been renewed for a second season. Who’s to say whether or not viewers will see extra of Brad and the dynamic between McKay and her father in the way forward for the sequence? Fiona, nevertheless, needs “extra wins” for her character.
“She tried so much and did not succeed with as many sufferers as she needed, so that may be good. After which, yeah, I hope that she makes it by one other very lengthy day on the hospital,” she says.
The Pitt airs its season finale on April 10 at 9 p.m. ET on Max.
