Scott Wolf Diagnoses Family Members to 'Their Great Annoyance' After Playing a TV Doctor
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00:00It's wild to me that this is based on a true story too.
00:03Amazing.
00:04I think it's really…anytime you hear that it does kind of awaken something in you where
00:10great stories don't have to be rooted in real life but this one happens to be.
00:14And the fact that a doctor lost…I think the doctor that it's based on lost 13 months
00:21of his real life, of his past.
00:27Yeah, so it's…again, the thing that makes the hospital shows so compelling is it could
00:32be us, you know?
00:33But for bad luck or circumstance, all of us are going to have some connective relationship
00:41with a hospital experience, whether it's someone we love or part of life.
00:45And so I think that's why there's never been a time on television where there's
00:49not a hospital show.
00:50Right, that's so true.
00:51It's really engaging, really…the medical stories that these writers come up with and
00:56that we tell are really compelling and it's life and death, people's lives on the line.
01:03And hopefully it feels authentic.
01:06We took good care of that, medical advisors on set and all of us did all of our homework.
01:11And so we want doctors to watch the show and think, yeah, that's what that looks like.
01:16And I know kind of a favorite pastime of a lot of doctors that I know is watching medical
01:20shows.
01:21That's not true, yeah.
01:22That's not how it works.
01:23So, you know, I've heard a lot of that over the years.
01:26I've played a doctor four times.
01:27I was going to say, you are basically an honorary doctor at this point.
01:30I know.
01:31I should get a degree from someplace.
01:32Right?
01:33You don't want me performing…
01:34You've basically gone through medical school.
01:35I mean, in terms of the terminology, anyway.
01:38Sure.
01:39Uh-huh.
01:40Do people come up to you for, like, medical advice now?
01:42No.
01:43No.
01:44Hopefully for them, they don't.
01:45I do, like, diagnose family members to their great annoyance.
01:49Sure.
01:50But, no, you do…
01:52I mean, look, this is what's fun about being an…
01:55One of the great things about being an actor is you get to sort of, like, through osmosis,
01:59kind of absorb these worlds.
02:01Yeah, none of this is making any of us real doctors, but, you know, this is the fourth
02:06time I've played a doctor and some stuff sticks in there.
02:09I'm sure.
02:10But, yeah, it matters to me a lot and it matters to everyone in this production that we honor
02:19the work that these, you know, people are life-saving heroes are doing in real life.
02:23Where does Dr. Miller rank in the doctors that you have played before?
02:26Number one in terms of, like, my enjoyment of it, the complexity of the character.
02:30Okay.
02:33You know, in terms of…
02:35I've loved…
02:36I mean, the first show that I played a doctor on was Everwood and, you know, Dr. Jake Hartman.
02:41And he was like a…
02:42What was he?
02:43Sort of a new-agey kind of…
02:44They've all been different disciplines, interestingly.
02:46Sure.
02:47The first guy was sort of a new-age general practitioner.
02:50On the show The Nine, I played…
02:56Why am I…
02:58So, Scott Clemens was my…
03:00On The Night Shift.
03:02I'm forgetting my character's name on…
03:04Oh, Jeremy Cates.
03:05Sorry, Hank.
03:06So, Hank Steinberg, who produced Doc, one of the producers…
03:11The executive producers on Doc was co-creator of The Nine.
03:17And that was the…
03:18I played Jeremy Cates, and he was a cardiothoracic surgeon, heart surgeon.
03:22And then, on The Night Shift, very much like an ER.
03:26Sure.
03:27And now, internal medicine.
03:29So, it's kind of cool to not have overlap in that way,
03:33because I've gotten to explore these different medical worlds playing doctors.
03:37But, yeah, I mean, I've never played…
03:40I've never had a more fun, interesting, complicated, sometimes painful character to play.
03:48And, you know, to be back working with Fox again…
03:51Yeah.
03:52I mean, I kind of…
03:53You started there, right?
03:54I was a baby there, and now I'm an old man there.
03:56I know.
03:57And two of my favorite experiences by far, you know, Part A5 and Doc.
04:01And so, yeah, full circle in some fun ways.
04:04Right, totally.
04:05But again, yeah, it's hard to imagine getting…
04:09They just gave me such wonderful stuff to work with as a character.
04:15And to be in the sandbox with Molly Parker and Omar and John and Amir.
04:21Like, they're…
04:22Patrick, these are all really, really great, talented people.
04:25So, yeah, it was…
04:27And I've done…
04:28You know, look, I've been able to be part of some fun things.
04:32You know, they all feel special in their own way.
04:37You know, this one feels just really, really, really special and really good.
04:42And it's exciting to be able to run around and talk about something that I'm really so proud of.