After five minutes with Shawn Hatosy, he couldn't help but talk about how grateful he was: "It's a complete circle. I started with John Wells and was a guest star for 'er'."

It has been 19 years since then, and he has worked with the well dozens of times since then. But the role of this guest star feels different. Dr. Jack Abbot of Max's The Pitt is an adorned veteran and night shift, not really on the radar of hatred. The day we interviewed - he walked to the coffee shop he met in Larchmont, Los Angeles - was his first role as Abbot on the street.

"What I convey to me is that there is actually only one character in my age group, and that's what I'm playing," Hatosy said with a smile. Of course, he refers to the role of Noah Wyle as Michael "Robby" Robinavitch. “Then I read the first episode and I saw the characters.”

At first, the writer was unsure that Dr. Abbot would develop into anything. Hatosy plays two other recurring characters - one on "Rescue: Hi Surf" produced by Wells, where he was able to direct and film in Hawaii. The other is the villain of "Chicago PD", even though he lands in "Peter". Fortunately, the schedule is perfect.

Technically, Hatosy is a guest star, appearing in five episodes – in the first episode, Abbot leaves the hospital at the end of the shift and then stands out more in the quarter, returning to help.

"We did the look in Pittsburgh for a week, so that happened around Episode 7. I did the first roofing scene and the last roofing scene - that was my second day." He didn't know how heavy the story was when filming. “I didn’t realize the weight and command of the abbot.”

In the last roof scene, Abbot tells Robby, “the speech hell there,” but neither Hatosy nor Wyle knows about the speech. But the scenario is important for the right. "We spent a lot of time on this. I worked a lot with John (Willes), and John directed that. Over 20 times, I worked as a director with him, and I also had some hard scenes with him. We spent at least four hours filming this."

When he signed, the hated man was introduced into the character’s detailed biography and was told that the character was an amputee, which reveals this in the final scene of the finale.

"By designing, the new staff don't know, which is revealed to them and the audience. It helps to emphasize that he doesn't define it for that. He is a very capable and talented person who you want to lead," he said. "I saw him on the roof at the beginning and it's obvious that he has some hidden trauma and hopefully in season 7 or 8 we can dig deep."

Hatosy saw the similarities between the abbot and himself.

"It's a little scary because you put yourself there. For some reason, when you play the role, you think, 'What is he wearing? What is he walking into? What is his physical attribute?' For that, it's my voice. "His history in battle and the trauma he went through and his studies, all of which are very different, but I think we're a lot otherwise. ”

The role - the show overall - is not easy, nor easy. "My responsibility, my job is just to serve writing. No skills; just truth." The first scene after the fast pilot cameo was Abbot's emotional speech. Then he was thrown into the emergency room

“We started to deal with the barrage of the body, and that was my first time doing a doctor’s thing – trying to intubate, do chest tubes, gurney went away, and another came in. There was blood on the floor. He said, he remembered his wife still feeling the adrenaline at the end of the first day.

In the first episode of Hatred, there is also a scene between him and Dr. Mohan of Supriya Ganesh. It didn't succeed in the final cut, but instead affected his feelings about Mohan and Abbot's relationship.

“There was a line cut in the first episode and someone commented that she was slow and I said, ‘She is the smartest person here.’ In my case, I think it’s definitely going in one direction,” he said. Since the show debuted, audiences wondered if there was a romantic spark between the two doctors. "I think he likes her, if I'm honest, just because of what I've read. He admires her brain, there's something there. When you work closely with people you can develop. So I think it's a flirting. I don't want to sound creepy when I say he's because he's in a position of power."