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It also is coming into the holidays and it’s getting colder so a lot of the social issues that Pittsburgh and a lot of colder places deal with are gonna come up. People are turning on their heaters for the first time, if they can afford to do that. People who don’t have access to housing are gonna be feeling the pinch even more than that. All that goes into our narrative.

And then this is in preparation for what’s gonna happen in January with ‘The Big Beautiful Bill’, which is gonna throw a lot of people off the rolls in a lot of states and cause a whole ripple effect in the health care industry.

People are going to make a lot of hard choices, they’re going to hoard medication if they can, they’re going to try and load up on as many treatments as possible, put as many things into place as they can for that eventuality. And we wanted to sort of highlight what some of those struggles are gonna be because I don’t know they’re going to be reported in January.”

We’re gonna figure that out. Because it’s nice to show volatility in a character but if that character is surrounded by women it’s a very difficult thing to depict without seeming disproportionate in power.

So that is something I was conscious of when I came back this year. Yes, it’s difficult to show [Robbys] rage when it would be super inappropriate to express it with every single person in this room.

So bring somebody in who can handle it and match it a little bit. And, for my money, that’s what Dr. Al Hashimi was, she gave as good as she got and those scenes between us were terrific.”

So, some people he was really tender with and some people he was really harsh with and some people he will carry regret with and some people he probably wishes he had gone further.

But all of that pathology was on display as a cry for help for anybody who was really looking to see it. More than I felt it was indicative of how he felt in a normal frame of mind in those relationships.

He pushed Abbot so far away. He pushed Dana so far away. He was overly harsh with Mohan. He was almost paternal with Javadi. He had a different vibe and energy with everybody. But ultimately it was to say goodbye.

I’m glad people felt [Robbys behavior] wasn’t appropriate because it was a man setting fire [to his life].”

So the representation that we are going to give people in that community is going to be unprecedented, but it comes from a 30 year friendship I’ve had with this guy, from some of the wars we’ve fought together through the years. So it all together dovetails together, you know, I’m using one to feed the other at the moment and seeing where it’s applicable and where I think I could do the most good.”