‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ Actress Jennifer Stone, Who Now Works as a Nurse, Says She Auditioned for ‘The Pitt’
Jennifer Stone, the former Wizards of Waverly Place star and current nurse, says she previously auditioned to be part of The Pitt.
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The actress appeared on the CHEERS! with Avery podcast (hosted by upcoming Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County star Avery Woods), where she reflected on the audition process for the Emmy-winning medical drama. She explained that she even studied her lines while she was working a shift as a nurse.
“I auditioned for one of the series regulars for The Pitt when that first came out. And I remember, because at the end of the pilot episode, the Noah Wyle character, he’s having COVID flashbacks,” she said. “And as I often do, I was reading the script and working on lines while we were waiting for a patient to get admitted, kind of in those brief little pockets of time that you have, so I was working on the lines and reading the script at work.”
Stone began working as an emergency room nurse in 2022; she also began a separate role as a disaster relief registered nurse in 2023, according to her LinkedIn. On the podcast, she said that The Pitt was so similar to her own work as a nurse that she nearly had a “panic attack” reading the lines.
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She continued, “And it got to those last few pages, and I started having a panic attack, just even hearing about that. I started having, like, the heavy breathing and I started having to do the, OK, this is the floor, that’s a table. Like, I started having to like talk myself down.”
“I have a hard time watching it ’cause it’s too close to home a little bit,” Stone added of The Pitt.
Stone starred on the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place from 2007-2012, and recently reprised her role as Harper Finkle for the final season of the reboot series, Wizards Beyond Waverly Place.
