Noah Wyle Treats Laetitia Hollard Scrape on The Pitt Set
Noah Wyle treated Laetitia Hollard’s bloody elbow scrape himself on the set of the pitt after she accidentally banged it while filming season 2. The injury happened in the crowded control hub of the main set, where she said she kept brushing past him while trying to reach her notebook.
Hollard’s notebook run
Laetitia Hollard, who plays new nurse Emma in season 2, said she was trying to grab the notebook her character carries in episode 1 when the scrape happened. She said Dana, played by Katherine LaNasa, finally told her, “Hey, you can go grab your notebook.”
“I had this little moment where you see me enter in episode 1 with this notebook and all these things on me. And Dana [Katherine LaNasa] finally tells me, 'Hey, you can go grab your notebook.' I am so excited to grab it. I'm like, 'Finally, I can use the tools that I brought here. I'm ready for this.’”
She said she had to squeeze past Wyle to reach it and bumped her elbow every time she moved around him. “So I had to squeeze past Noah to get my notebook, because he's talking, and I'm like, 'Oh my god, I'm being little shy Emma. And every time I squeezed past, I would bump my elbow a little bit.'”
Gauze in the control hub
Hollard said she did not realize the cut was serious until she came back to reset and saw what looked like fake blood on the counter. “Adrenaline just automatically is in my system. So I bump it again, and I go and I get that notebook, and when I come back, when I reset, I see there's like fake blood on the counter. And I literally say to someone, 'Who left fake blood here?' And Noah goes, 'I think you nicked yourself.' I look at my elbow, it's covered with blood.”
Wyle then brought her to a corner and used gauze and disinfectant on the scrape himself. Hollard said, “Noah was like, 'Don't worry, this is the best place for this to happen,’” and later recalled thinking, “Wait, I'm in ‘The Pitt’ right now.”
'not me. I'm pretending.'
A real nurse eventually passed by, and Wyle suggested they should attend to Hollard instead. He added, “'not me. I'm pretending.'” That line fits the strange efficiency of the moment: the show’s lead actor stepped in before a medic, using the same on-set calm the series trades on in episode scenes.
Wyle has played doctors for most of his life, and this incident puts that screen skill to work in a very real corner of the set. For Hollard, the practical takeaway is simple: the injury was handled immediately, on camera-adjacent ground, by someone already in the scene rather than after a delay.
