With the mention of the unfortunate Tree of Life Synagogue attack in The Pitt Season 2 Episode 3, turning many heads, Noah Wyle has come out to explain why the team decided to give a tribute to the tragedy that shook Pittsburgh in 2018. In a recent discussion, he recalled how several communities came together to help victims in the aftermath of the said attack and emphasized the importance of showcasing their sacrifice in a show taking place in Pittsburgh.
Noah Wyle says honoring Tree of Life attack in The Pitt Season 2 was ‘a wonderful opportunity’
The Golden Globe Award winner recently noted that honoring the Samaritan work that followed the 2018 Tree of Life terror attack in The Pitt’s latest episode felt like covering the “most underreported aspect” of the incident.
“That being such a significant event in the city of Pittsburgh, it seemed like a wonderful opportunity,” Noah Wyle told Variety. “When I started researching it, the aspects of it that moved me the most were the community outcry afterward from the Muslim community and the solidarity with the Jewish community of Pittsburgh, working together to grieve and mourn the loss. It was the most underreported aspect of the story, and perhaps the most hopeful moving forward.”
In The Pitt Season 2 Episode 3, Dr. Robby treats a Jewish patient named Yana. She suffers burn marks, caused by exposure to fireworks. Yana later reveals that she suffers from PTSD from the gunshots she heard during the Tree of Life Synagogue attack. In a heartfelt conclusion, she also thanks nurse Perlah Alawi. Yana then pays her respect to the Muslim community for having funded funerals for the victims of the 2018 mass shooting.
“You can’t do a medical show, set in Pittsburgh, with a Jewish doctor without addressing that,” further added series EP R. Scott Gemmill. “It felt like a very important story to tell. There are important elements of that that hadn’t been told, or hadn’t really made the news cycle. The fact that the Muslim community came together and paid for all the funerals, that’s the kind of information that needed to be out there. We wanted to tell that part of the story and address the story itself.”
Notably, the tragic terrorist attack at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in October 2018 claimed the lives of 11 people, injuring a further six.
Originally reported by Apoorv Rastogi on ComingSoon.net.
