Noah Wyle was precise when he revealed the exact moment he decided to leave “ER“, one of the greatest medical series of all time.
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The star of “The Pitt” revealed in a 2019 interview with the “Hollywood Reporter” the real reason for leaving the medical drama.
“I’ll be very specific, November 9, 2002. Owen Wyle was born,” said the actor, referring to the arrival of his first child.
“It was a Thursday, and I didn’t go to work on Friday. I had a shift scheduled on Monday, I went to work and around 10:30 in the morning, for the first time I looked at my watch, looked up and said: ‘Come on, folks. What are we doing? Let’s go.'”
The actor, who played the beloved Dr. John Carter for almost a decade, admitted that fatherhood changed his perspectives and raised a series of questions.
“And I thought: ‘What are you doing? Where do you want to be?’ And I thought: ‘You know where you want to be.’ I just thought: ‘I can’t stay here 80 hours a week and miss this. And I quit,'” Wyle explained.
“I called it a divorce with visitation rights, because I obviously didn’t want to say goodbye to the best job and the best experience I ever had. And in fact, the series family had become more than a surrogate family to me. I was about to start a real family that needed to come first,” he concluded.
Noah Wyle has just won the 2025 Emmy for Best Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in “The Pitt“. This was his first win out of six previous nominations, including five for his role in ER.
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