What happens when actors spend months on a medical drama set? According to Variety, the cast of 'The Pitt'—including Isa Briones and Gerran Howell—has discovered an uncomfortable truth: desensitization. Howell, who portrays resident doctor Dennis Whitaker, admitted he's stopped feeling squeamish around the gruesome on-set medical content. He even joked about whether that's a red flag—before conceding that the fake gore is still, objectively, gross. It's a peculiar occupational cost of television: the human brain's remarkable ability to normalize the abnormal.

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