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‘The Pitt’: Shawn Hatosy Reveals What ‘Says So Much’ About Abbot’s Feelings for Mohan
The Pitt, for the most part, focuses on the medicine and the effects of the job on its hospital staff. Season 1 had moments here and there acknowledging the personal relationships among the doctors and nurses. But there was one very small one that fans have picked up on and flocked to: a flirtation between Drs. Abbot (Shawn Hatosy) and Mohan (Supriya Ganesh).
The two worked closely together in the middle of a mass casualty incident, a shooting at a musical festival, and after. In season, Hatosy told TV Insider that Abbot was flirting with Mohan when he praised her work on a procedure he had her do.
“I think he’s kind of, in his own weird and ‘I’m not trying to be creepy’ way, flirting in the only way that he can. I think he actually has a ton of respect for Dr. Mohan,” he said in March 2025. “There was a scene — I’m not sure if it made it, I don’t think it did — in the first episode where somebody says something about her and he comes out and says, ‘She’s the smartest one here.’ And I think he has such respect for her. So like I said, I think it was his way of just kinda trying to keep it warm there with her.”
Now, when speaking to him for TV Insider’s Scene Study, we had to bring up the fan support and hopes for a relationship between the two. He admitted he didn’t know what exactly it is that draws people to them.
In Episode 13, “he helps out with the neck wound and he’s got the cric kit, and then she’s like, ‘What else do you have in that go bag?’ And he’s like, ‘Oh, you’ll see. Wouldn’t you like to know?’ or something. He’s clearly flirting. And I thought it when we did the table reading and everybody kind of raised their eyebrows. And then I think somebody was like, ‘That’s creepy. That’s gross. That can’t be a relationship.’ And I was like, ‘Well, why not?'” Hatosy recalled.
“I think it’s funny where the response has gotten to. I mean, obviously we as actors are always trying to find things that are behind it. Whether or not they’re true makes no difference. It just stuff that we have to put into it, I have to put into it to kind of give the scene something because everybody’s got something hidden behind what they’re saying,” he continued. “It’s the nuance of the character. And so the fact that it has created anything, it makes me laugh.”
He also shared that his character “is happy to talk to Dr. Mohan over a pigtail catheter about his feelings,” and agreed that it’s unclear if Abbot is ready for a relationship. After all, he is still wearing his wedding ring; in Hatosy’s mind, his wife died within a year or two from Season 1’s shift.
“But I do think he respects [Mohan] a lot. And I think sometimes that can turn into something else. He doesn’t have to act on it. He could just feel that way, right?” Hatosy pointed out. “He mentions a couple things about her, that she’s the smartest here and he trusts her to do this. That procedure that they do with the pigtail catheter, there’s only one case of it recorded ever done in history in Korea or something that somebody wrote about. So the fact that he is willing to literally put his career on the line and trust her to do it says so much.”
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The Pitt, Season 2, January 2026, HBO Max
