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On ‘The Pitt,’ Ned Brower’s Nurse Jesse Has Captured the Hearts of Fans

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By Brenna Ehrlich When Ned Brower sat down with The Pitt producer and co-star Noah Wyle to discuss a big moment in Season Two, the world had not yet heard the name Alex Pretti. All Brower knew at that point was that his character, nurse Jesse Van Horn, was to be arrested by ICE during an episode in which officers attempt to detain a patient in the fictional ED. “I think a great part of the show is when we can touch on these kinds of hot button topics in a framework that’s not always hitting the audience over the head, but that reflects society back from a hospital perspective,” Brower says of the pivotal moment in Episode 11 of the HBO Max hit. “A couple of times a year we’ll bring in doctors and nurses to talk about what’s going on, what scares them,” show creator R. Scott Gemmill says. “ICE became one of the stories [the other night].…

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