The Pitt’s Shawn Hatosy Is Embracing Life as a Sex Symbol
When Dr. Jack Abbot enters the high-BPM chaos of the fictional emergency room in The Pitt, heart rates settle—but not for long. Shawn Hatosy, nominated at Monday night’s Emmy Awards (and a winner last year), plays the attending physician with something of his own cool, coquettish competence. “I wanted to bring as much of the essence of me into that role as possible,” Hatosy told me the morning after the ceremony, where his show won six of its whopping 25 nominations, including a second consecutive award for Outstanding Drama Series. Who’s Shawn Hatosy, then? “Somebody you would go to the bar and have a beer with,” he says. He also happens to be gracious in defeat. Though Hatosy missed out on his second consecutive Emmy, he was as impressed by Tom Pelphrey’s performance in Task as the Television Academy. “It could have won the lead actor award, in my opinion,” gushed the 50-year-old, who’s busy filming the HBO drama’s third season, in which he gets to direct the fifth episode. “Once Tom Pelphrey came out, …
