“THEY DIDN’T JUST SAVE LIVES — THEY SAVED FAITH.” Katherine LaNasa reveals that the character of nurse Dana Evans in The Pitt was born from very real people: nurses working themselves to exhaustion in public hospitals, where compassion isn’t a slogan but a matter of survival. Behind the string of major awards and grueling 18-hour shifts are the images of women who simply want to stay where “they are truly needed.” The Pitt doesn’t romanticize hospitals — it exposes America on Independence Day, where the right and the broken coexist. And it is there that Dana Evans finds her value: quiet, persistent, without glamour — but irreplaceable.
How real-life nurses inspired The Pitt’s Katherine LaNasa Katherine LaNasa, who plays nurse Dana Evans on the HBO series The Pitt, spoke with CTV Your Morning on Monday…