“The Pitt” star Supriya Ganesh issued a plea to journalists and others who’ve blended up brown forged members on the present, calling out press whose job tasks contain not making such a dangerous blunder.
“PSA there’s a couple of brown lady on our present,” Ganesh wrote in a Tuesday night publish on X. “In the principle forged, there have been two final yr and three (3!) this yr!! Please cease mixing us up!! Particularly if you happen to’re press, it’s actually your job to not! Thanks!!!!”
Ganesh’s feedback come forward of the Season 2 launch of the HBO Max medical drama on Jan. 8, which has concerned press junkets and different interview alternatives within the lead-up to the debut.
“The Pitt” Season 1 launched Ganesh as third-year medical resident Dr. Samira Mohan. Moreover, the season starred Shabana Azeez as medical pupil Victoria Javadi.
As Ganesh talked about, “The Pitt” will add one other lady of shade to the forged within the upcoming second season. In June, it was revealed that Sepideh Moafi had joined the Season 2 forged. She is going to play a brand new attending doctor, who beforehand labored with each Samira (Ganesh) and Mel (Taylor Dearden) on the VA hospital.
Following the debut of its first season in January 2025, “The Pitt” was applauded for its inclusion of various backgrounds and cultural identities, together with when the HBO drama sequence portrayed Filipino nurses Princess (Kristin Villanueva) and Perlah (Amielynn Abellera) talking in Tagalog within the emergency room.
Ganesh got here out publicly as queer earlier this yr and has beforehand been outspoken in her want for “queer brown girls to take a look at me and know that that’s somebody they’ll flip to and relate to,” a want that prompted her to begin utilizing she/they pronouns, which she additionally revealed was impressed by Lily Gladstone.
“Though I really feel like I determine much more with femininity, that doesn’t imply I at all times match into what’s a really Western concept of it,” Ganesh instructed Selection about utilizing she/they pronouns. “It additionally appears like just a little little bit of a shout-out, being like, ‘Hey, I’m queer. See me.’”
“The Pitt” Season 2 premieres Jan. 8 on HBO Max.
