I’m ashamed to admit that it took a trip to Wikipedia for me to place why The Pitt’s Dr. Cassie McKay seemed so familiar. Ah! She’s a Dourif! Actress Fiona Dourif’s performance on the show is so natural, so empathetic and lived-in, that of course she’s related to the legendary actor Brad Dourif. (She’s his daughter. The eyes really should have been a dead giveaway.) In an interview with Esquire’s Brady Langmann, Dourif talks about her journey to becoming Dr. McKay, and Dr. McKay’s journey to becoming the heart and soul of season 2 of the show. Check it out below.
—Kevin Dupzyk, features editor
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The 44-year-old swiftly made Dr. McKay a fan favorite. The actress channeled everything she’s learned to pull it off.
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"This is probably something I should not tell you," Fiona Dourif warns me, mid-stride. She’s looking down at her phone, somewhere between incredulous and amused. "I should have been a little bit more of a diva and I wasn't," she says.
The 44-year-old actress is on a rare sabbatical from her stellar turn as Dr. Cassie McKay on The Pitt, and she's filling her time with a new role. (Variety revealed earlier today that she's starring in a suburban horror movie produced by Robert Downey Jr. titled A Head Full of Ghosts.) She can't tell me much about it just yet as we speak, but she jets from Los Angeles to Ireland tomorrow to begin filming. The one thing she can share, actually, is that she had to dye her hair for the role. I won't bury the lede: Someone turned Fiona Dourif's hair pink. Or maybe a bright red. Neon orange? Hard to tell, but you guessed it: Dourif is phoning in today from the aftermath of a color correction.
"I had actually had a few—for the first time in my life—real offers for things, and it is not something I take lightly," Dourif says, telling me about how The Pitt changed her career. "It took me a really long time to make a living as an actor. That's been basically paying my bills for about ten years, but to have The Pitt happen when I was 43, it just feels even luckier than if it had happened in my 20s, because I'm licking every morsel of it."
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Are we all enjoying Masters weekend? For last week’s column, I was physically down south, and this week I’m mentally there. I’ve got the TV on the Paramount+ stream from Augusta all day—morning practice ’til the end of media appointments. Shaping up to be a horrible weekend for Jon Rahm (a shadow of the golfer I saw at the Ryder Cup), and Rory McIlroy is looking like he just might do it again.
Fittingly, our favorite products of the week feature a bit more golf. Herschel released a new golf bag, and Malbon (one of our favorite golf fashion brands) is a big winner from pretournament. There’s even a bit of Georgia this week, with my favorite Atlanta suit brand releasing a killer new shirt. Elsewhere, we hit our usual high-low combo. We’re loving the new Snow Goose collection and Palace Air Max 95’s, but we’re also shopping Buck Mason and Alo.
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Let’s face it, it’s hard to have a good laugh these days. Costly wars and expensive groceries have made daily existence downright unbearable. But that’s why we still turn to the movies. There’s no better chicken soup for the soul than two-plus hours in a dark theater, or on the couch with your favorite take-out. It feels like 2026 has just begun, but the first quarter happens to have a handful of pretty good comedies that will get you laughing well into the summer.
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