Two Dourifs are higher than one!
Fiona Dourif shared the display screen along with her dad Brad Dourif on the most recent 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 PEOPLE in an unique interview that she was “delighted” to work along with her dad, 75, once more after that they had lately costarred within the Chucky tv collection.
“The producers got here up and requested me, and I acquired somewhat 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.”
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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 top of his mother’s shift.
Nevertheless, a mass taking pictures happens at a close-by music pageant and the hospital is left coping with the horrific fallout. Earlier episodes teased that McKay’s mother and father have been coming to choose up her son. And precisely who that will be is revealed within the April 3 episode, titled “8:00 P.M.,” as none apart from Brad.
With the collection admittedly being Fiona’s largest function but, she felt thrilled to have her dad by her facet on set. “The entire thing was very thrilling,” she says. “And within the scene, he says to me, ‘I am pleased with you.’ There was this second the place it was very clear that it was my dad saying that to me in regards to the [acting] job. There have been so many parallels. I believe we have been each somewhat emotional about it.”
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“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 pleased with me and I am very pleased with him,” she says. “We’ve a detailed relationship, which does not all the time 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 method that adults do not get to do with their mother and father. It is a fantastic 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 totally different. “It was simply pure pleasure. I had pleasure pumping via my physique as a result of he is a really particular particular person and a superb actor,” she explains. “We actually belief one another. I might simply take 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 collection, Fiona turned to Brad for recommendation, provided that he as soon as performed a health care provider on the HBO collection Deadwood.
“I undoubtedly requested for some recommendation about all the medical jargon and the best way to get it to a spot the place it’s easy,” the actress says. “He instructed me to repeat the traces 40 occasions, which I did in the beginning of the season. I’d get to realize it so properly that it was like a track I might sing.”
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Along with having a private connection to her character via their shared patriarch, she additionally feels that McKay is an extension of her personal character. “McKay is like me on my finest day,” Fiona says, noting that it makes taking part in her “scarier and tougher since you marvel, ‘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, should you guys do not like McKay, you do not like me. It feels very susceptible. It feels way more susceptible than taking part in a grimy monster, which has form 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 collection? Fiona, nevertheless, needs “extra wins” for her character.
“She tried loads and did not succeed with as many sufferers as she wished, so that will be good. After which, yeah, I hope that she makes it via 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.
