Alexandra Metz did not want Dr. Yolanda García, the main surgeon in HBO's hit series The Pitt, to feel like another familiar Latina television archetype. She wanted her to feel specific, formidable, and, in one crucial way, unexpected.
"Well, a lot of that was on the page, but building off of what the creatives had given me, it was so fun because I wanted to create something that was different than my own background," Metz told this reporter when asked how she built Doctor Robby's "favorite butcher."
