{"id":913236,"date":"2026-07-05T02:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/913236\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T02:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:19:16","slug":"noah-wyle-was-offered-tons-of-roles-but-couldnt-get-out-of-er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/913236\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Wyle Was Offered &#8216;Tons&#8217; of Roles but &#8216;Couldn&#8217;t Get Out&#8217; of &#8216;ER&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-pitt\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-pitt\" data-tag=\"the-pitt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Pitt<\/a>\u201d star <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/noah-wyle\/\" id=\"auto-tag_noah-wyle\" data-tag=\"noah-wyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Wyle<\/a> recently told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DaTbuk7m0E8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u201cStill Here Hollywood\u201d podcast<\/a> that he missed out on roles in \u201cSaving Private Ryan\u201d and \u201cGood Night, and Good Luck\u201d because he couldn\u2019t get out of filming the long-running medical series \u201cER.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWhen asked if he had any roles that got away, Wyle said, \u201cYeah, tons. Happens all the time. We talked about a couple of them, actually. \u2018Good Night, and Good Luck,\u2019 George [Clooney] offered me a part in that. I couldnt\u2019 get out of \u2018ER\u2019 to do it. I was offered the part of Private Ryan in \u2018Saving Private Ryan,\u2019 couldn\u2019t get out of \u2018ER\u2019 to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWyle added that he was in some ways glad he missed out on those parts, because the people who got them made the best of the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI almost am glad that I didn\u2019t do them, because, you know, those guys made those parts,\u201d he said. \u201cMatt Damon was Private Ryan. There were two. I got offered the part of Upham, which was Jeremy Davies\u2019 part, and he was so phenomenal in that I couldn\u2019t imagine doing anything close to what he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWyle is currently starring in another hit medical drama, \u201cThe Pitt,\u201d which wrapped up its second season on HBO Max in April. Production on Season 3 began in June and is set to take place on a day in November. \u201cThe Pitt\u201d Season 1 took home five Emmy awards in 2025, including outstanding drama series and lead actor in a drama for Wyle for his role as Dr. Michael \u201cRobby\u201d Robinavitch.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Pitt\u201d star Noah Wyle recently told the \u201cStill Here Hollywood\u201d podcast that he missed out on roles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":913237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,40960,25900,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-913236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-noah-wyle","tag-the-pitt","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}