{"id":676,"date":"2026-06-11T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/supriya-ganesh-on-the-pitt-panic-attacks-acting-out-her-anxiety\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:15:00","slug":"supriya-ganesh-on-the-pitt-panic-attacks-acting-out-her-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/supriya-ganesh-on-the-pitt-panic-attacks-acting-out-her-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Supriya Ganesh on &#8216;The Pitt&#8217; Panic Attacks, Acting Out Her Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWhen Season 2 of \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-pitt\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-pitt\" data-tag=\"the-pitt\">The Pitt<\/a>\u201d began, the only thing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/supriya-ganesh\/\" id=\"auto-tag_supriya-ganesh\" data-tag=\"supriya-ganesh\">Supriya Ganesh<\/a> had mapped out with show creator R. Scott Gemmill was that her character Dr. Samira Mohan had some major friction with her mother. And she was immediately excited to dive in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI think she centered a lot of her life plans around going back to New Jersey and having this life there with her mom, because it\u2019s really just the two of them left in their family. I think that\u2019s part of why she never really felt the need to put roots down in Pittsburgh,\u201d says Ganesh. \u201cIt was interesting seeing how her mother making a decision to not involve herself in this life plan kind of blew everything up for her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tGanesh was thrilled to show a deeper, different side to Mohan, who is always depicted as being a very empathetic doctor, prioritizing her patients above all else.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI liked that with this mom interaction, I could make her a bit prickly and a little bit less palatable outside of a doctor-patient interaction,\u201d she adds. \u201cShe is a little bit socially stunted and awkward and doesn\u2019t really have a lot going on outside of work. Because of that, she\u2019s pushing people away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThat tension with her mother, which is illustrated by her phone constantly ringing throughout her workday, hits its climax with Mohan having a panic attack in the ninth episode. Ganesh was told that she\u2019d be acting that out the day she received the script \u2014 and, no pun intended, \u201cI panicked,\u201d she admits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI have an anxiety disorder. And I had to sit back and go, \u2018OK, well, do I really know my panic attacks are coming? No.\u2019 They come out of nowhere. I decided to tackle it with that sort of mentality \u2014 this is unexpected, but that plays into the reality of what this thing is,\u201d she says. \u201cI definitely wanted to make sure I was portraying it as accurately and with as much sensitivity as possible, because the few times that I have experienced it, it\u2019s just so scary. It really does feel like something\u2019s just very deeply, horribly wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  size-large alignnone \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure  lrv-u-font-family-secondary u-color-medium-grey lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-light-grey-tint-two u-margin-b-150 lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1000px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-t-1 lrv-u-padding-b-1\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"u-color-medium-grey u-font-family-neue-xxs\">Warrick Page\/MAX<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tShe then did a ton of research \u2014 \u201cbecause I started having imposter syndrome, about my anxiety disorder,\u201d she says. Ganesh read up on many different ways people experience their own panic attacks and tried to incorporate different symptoms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFilming the panic attack \u201cfelt very real,\u201d she says, admitting the whole arc was \u201cquite a lot on my body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe season overall took a toll on Ganesh, since the body doesn\u2019t realize the trauma her character is going through isn\u2019t real trauma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI think, in a strange way, mentally, it was hard for me to separate myself from her. It\u2019s very strange, because I felt this deep sense of just sadness. Feeling the weight of this character on me, I didn\u2019t realize that\u2019s what it was until the end of episode 13, where she exits the hospital,\u201d she says. \u201cShe exits the hospital, she kind of allows herself to cry, because you don\u2019t really want a doctor crying in the workplace. Before we filmed episode 14, I thought, \u2018Oh, she would have just been crying.\u2019 And so I let myself have a little cry before and was so surprised at how much I was carrying her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tGanesh <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/the-pitt-supriya-ganesh-exits-season-3-ayesha-harris-1236705534\/\">won\u2019t be returning to \u201cThe Pitt\u201d;<\/a> in the finale, her character tells Noah Wyle\u2019s Dr. Robinavitch that maybe she\u2019ll go into geriatrics. Ganesh hopes Mohan \u201cfinds a way to go back into racial disparity research,\u201d she says. \u201cI think that was really right for her. It made sense that funding was cut, because in the real world that we all live in, that is certainly something that we\u2019re all experiencing and seeing. I would love that for her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/supriya-ganesh-the-pitt-season-2-finale-mohan-future-1236723738\/\">whether she\u2019d pop back in<\/a> to \u201cThe Pitt\u201d in the future, \u201cit\u2019s up to the writers,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s really whatever they end up wanting to do. I\u2019m just so grateful \u2014 this whole team took a chance on me. It\u2019s my first role in a TV show as a series regular. I couldn\u2019t ask for a better introduction to the industry,\u201d she says. \u201cIf the opportunity comes around and I\u2019m available, absolutely. But ultimately, it\u2019s up to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/awards\/awards\/supriya-ganesh-the-pitt-panic-attack-anxiety-1236771465\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Season 2 of \u201cThe Pitt\u201d began, the only thing Supriya Ganesh had mapped out with show creator R. Scott Gemmill was that her character Dr. Samira Mohan had some major friction with her mother. And she was immediately excited to dive in. \u201cI think she centered a lot of her life plans around going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supriya-ganesh-katherine-lanasa.jpg?w=1000&h=563&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1302,1303,1301,1298,1300,1299,1297,1295,1296],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","tag-acting","tag-anxiety","tag-attacks","tag-ganesh","tag-panic","tag-pitt","tag-supriya","tag-supriya-ganesh","tag-the-pitt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}