{"id":1145911,"date":"2026-08-13T09:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1145911\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T09:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:23:23","slug":"wizards-of-waverly-place-star-nurse-jennifer-stone-auditioned-for-the-pitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1145911\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards of Waverly Place Star, Nurse Jennifer Stone Auditioned for The Pitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJennifer Stone, the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/wizards-waverly-place\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wizards-waverly-place_1\" data-tag=\"wizards-waverly-place\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wizards of Waverly Place<\/a> star and current nurse, says she previously auditioned to be part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-pitt\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-pitt_1\" data-tag=\"the-pitt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Pitt<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe actress appeared on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RgSsx3a1BXU\">CHEERS! with Avery<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI auditioned for one of the series regulars for\u00a0The Pitt\u00a0when that first came out. And I remember, because at the end of the pilot episode, the\u00a0Noah Wyle\u00a0character, he\u2019s having COVID flashbacks,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tStone 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 <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jenniferstone14\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>. On the podcast, she said that The Pitt was so similar to her own work as a nurse that she nearly had a \u201cpanic attack\u201d reading the lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShe continued, \u201cAnd 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\u2019s a table. Like, I started having to like talk myself down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI have a hard time watching it \u2019cause it\u2019s too close to home a little bit,\u201d Stone added of The Pitt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tStone 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Stone, the former Wizards of Waverly Place star and current nurse, says she previously auditioned to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1145912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,4863,16,15,311607],"class_list":["post-1145911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-the-pitt","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wizards-of-waverly-place"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117087476526965830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1145912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}