I’ve updated the gallery with photos of Shawn attending the “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” Premiere in SXSW.

When The Pitt‘s executive producers first approached Shawn Hatosy with their pitch for Dr. Abbott’s season two arc, he balked. “There was some discussion early on when I joined the show about how maybe Abbott would come back full-time in season two, so I was eagerly awaiting the news,” he explains. “And then they came back to me to suggest that he’s in the E.R. in the middle of the season and I was like, what does that mean? Why am I coming in the middle? Am I dying? Am I coming in on a gurney?”

The actor came around quickly once the creators explained that they were going to have Dr. Abbott serve as part of a SWAT team. “I loved the idea,” he added.

Hatosy is currently in Toronto filming his next project, the FX limited series Cry Wolf, alongside Olivia Colman, Brie Larson, showrunner Sarah Treem (The Affair) and director Anne Sewitsky. He can’t say much about the series yet, outside of teasing that it’s “one of the best scripts” he’s ever read and that it is the sort of narrative that constantly leaves the viewer off balance. The actor is also looking forward to meeting more fans of The Pitt than on his last trip to the country. “Animal Kingdom is huge in Canada, I think it must have been on during COVID or something,” he says. “When I was here during the summer, I couldn’t walk to the elevator in my hotel without somebody being like, ‘Oh my God, you’re Pope.’”

Below, he takes a break from set to break down season two, including his The Pitt directorial debut.

Let’s start with Abbott’s SWAT storyline. When does this man sleep?

I guess he doesn’t. He has his days free and he does all this stuff. I think he’s very lonely and just trying to figure out things to keep him occupied. I really love how he brings up the therapist, because he misses the point in such a big way. I remember having a conversation with my therapist when I gave up drinking, and I was like, I need something. I found tennis through that session. So I can imagine Abbott having a similar conversation, and he probably went and tried to play golf and it was not his thing so he decided to join the SWAT team. [More at Source]

Shawn Hatosy is having a career moment equivalent to pulling the lever on a slot machine only to watch as the characters start to line up, lights flare, and bells ring. At 50, he’s worked consistently in Hollywood for three decades. But it was landing the part of Jack Abbot—a grizzled night-shift emergency doctor and war veteran—on The Pitt that earned him his first Emmy last year and sent fans trawling through his filmography. Jackpot. 

Last year, when his crime drama Animal Kingdom fortuitously dropped on Netflix in the midst of Pitt-mania, Hatosy watched along with fans on TikTok as it climbed into the top 10. “Checking in on my new oomfs,” he quipped to his 700,000 viewers, while filming himself on the way to the Gotham Awards. “I’m really happy that shows like Animal Kingdom and Southland, which were such a big part of my life, are finding new audiences. I’m proud of those shows,” he tells me. On Twitter, he’s declared himself the “unc peepaw people’s princess” and regularly enjoys the virality of new and old posts alike, saying things like Miss Piggy “seems DTF.” 

Hatosy’s outsize popularity on The Pitt—a show where he is technically a guest star despite gleefully partaking in every press appearance—seems in part due to the stable of sympathetic, slightly unstable, salt-and-pepper characters he’s embodied over the years and partly due to his entirely unpredictable online presence. These days, he’s looking ahead to his character’s return to The Pitt, his directorial debut on the show (episode nine), his first boldface theatrical release (Ready or Not 2), and a new limited series, Cry Wolf, in which he stars alongside Olivia Colman and Brie Larson. 

Ahead of all that, we sat down with the actor for a trip through the ’70s tomes, classic films, and avant-garde directors that helped shape his one-of-a-kind output. 

I’m excited to talk to you about your offline reading habits, because I feel like you’re a very online person. Does that feel fair? 

I’ve been around long enough to have been through the early days of MySpace, to then Facebook, to what we’re dealing with now. I would say, probably I am. I’m tuned into what’s happening on social media, but it’s so messy these days. I see it with my kids too, like, is this the best thing? I’m starting to have these bigger, existential questions about social media. [More at Source]

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