? SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox ? As with many medical professionals, it's always good to get a second opinion. And Ifeachor is incredibly grateful she did. The Pitt showcased through even just one day as a frontline worker can have your personal and professional lives wildly converge. And Dr. Heather Collins might be one of the biggest examples of that. When the day begins, she is in the secretive throes of her pregnancy, eagerly anticipating it after a previous tryst with Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) had her getting an abortion. Throughout the day, Collins is hit with multiple cases around pregnancy, from delivering a baby to handling a teenager who wants to get an abortion, despite her mother's protestations.The latter leads to absolute tragedy for Collins, as she gets caught in a skirmish between family members and suffers a miscarriage. Heartbroken and distraught, she adds yet another secretive feather to her cap, getting on with her shift. But, after divulging her situation to Robby, he sends her home – and out of Season 1. Given the singular setting of The Pitt, Collins is out of sight and out of mind for the rest of the episodes, missing out on both the white-knuckle intensity of the PittFest mass casualty event, as well as the season finale.On her way to California to film Season 2, Tracy Ifeachor talks with Parade about Collins's backstory, how she handled that dramatic miscarriage moment and her reaction to all the critical acclaim The Pitt has received so far.
How was The Pitt initially pitched to you? And what made you interested in the show in the first place?Well, first of all, I knew that it was a medical show. As soon as I heard medical show, I thought procedural, and I went, "Nope, no, thank you." So I want to say that I got the script and everything. I didn't even read it. And I went, "No, I'm not doing medical." And then my team at the time said to me, "Just have a look at this one. We really like this." So I said, "Okay." So I opened it and I read about Collins. As soon as I read the script, I was like, "Oh my gosh, I have to be involved in this. This is really special and so different, not what I was expecting at all." So I was so glad that I had a really good team who just did a little intervention. [Laughs.] Both sides of my arms, like, "You're doing this."How was Collins initially pitched to you once you started doing meeting with Scott and John?I mean, we didn't get to this in the season. But I was told that she's from finance, and that's her kind of background. And she actually came to medicine quite late, and she didn't follow the conventional route. She was inspired by her mentor, and she ended up meeting Dr. Robby. And then they had a little tryst years ago. And then she'd never expected to be back at Pittsburgh or match with him. When would probably never would have gone there if she knew she would be in the same paddling pool again with her boss. So she ends up back with him. And it creates these wonderful moments of tension, these wonderful moments of excitement, and mystery as well, because we want to know what happened all those years ago.Talk to me about that. Did you also get a specific sense as to what Robby and Collins's history is? Or is that something you and Noah talked about?I think it's really up in the air. It isn't something I think Noah and I haven't really [discussed]. I don't want to speak of him, but we have very different ways of approaching scenes and characters. None, right, none wrong; everybody has their different process. And so it wasn't something he ever spoke with me about or anything. And I think that's in some ways, that's kind of exciting, because then nothing is set and you can decide, and you have a kind of freedom to take your thoughts where you want them to go. But for myself, I just feel like as a woman, you cannot be with someone who hides themselves from you emotionally in any way. And sometimes people who go through trauma or who haven't dealt with something, they are always hiding a part of themselves. That's kind of PTSD, isn't it? That person has this dam up. And when you're trying to love someone, you're chipping away at this dam, not realizing that there's a whole thing behind it. You just think, "I want to know you. I want to share with you. I want to do life with you." And and you can only love someone as much as they have the capacity to love themselves. You can't love them any more or any less. You can't get from them what they don't have. And I think after a while in a relationship, that probably wears on a person, and that's kind of what broke it down in my mind.How far along in the process did you find out that Collins would have a miscarriage during her shift at the ER? So one of the scenes that I actually read when I met, met with John and Scott was the miscarriage scene. That was a scene that was added very, very early on. So I knew that that was coming, and I was up for the challenge of portraying that. And I think I watched something like 300 hours, hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of testimonials about women who had gone through this. Because I was really keen to portray it in a way that really honored these women who had gone through this, and many who are still going through it, and the treatment that they received from the from the professionals, and what that would be like as a professional to go through something like that, and to feel like, "What's wrong with my body? Why has it done this? Why has it kind of let me down? I'm a doctor. I should know how to deal with anything. And yet, here I am. Can't even do this myself." So it was interesting playing with these and interacting with these different ideas and thoughts and themes, and still wanting to really uphold these women who who had so graciously shared, either personally with me or through something like Instagram and YouTube, their stories and their lives and their journeys. I think they're really courageous women, and I hope that I did it justice.Well, you talk about Collins having to push her personal aside for her professional life when she matches at the Pitt with Robby. An we see that firsthand when, shortly after she suffers her own miscarriage, she has to deliver a baby. Talk to me about what Collins's headspace was during that time.I feel like I just always want to be present, and I always want to tell the truth of any situation so your body doesn't know that it's acting. Your body doesn't know it releases all of these chemicals. It releases all of these hormones when you put yourself into that position and situation. And so I really feel like, to some extent, that I actually lived it as the actor going through it, going through with this person. Because I have a history of it in my own family. When I was very a small child, a family member had a miscarriage at seven months. And I still remember looking forward to the birth of this child. And we're all really excited just the next day, it was not there. And other children come into the family, and sort of seeing how that person then interacts with this new child, it felt like reliving those moments again from my childhood. It was really intense.
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