The Pitt’s Isa Briones Says the Rigidity Between Santos and Langdon in Season 2 Is ‘Resulting in One thing’ Main (Unique)

The stress between Santos and Langdon grows.

Isa Briones, who performs Dr. Trinity Santos in The Pitt, tells PEOPLE in an unique interview that the stress between her character and Patrick Ball‘s Dr. Frank Langdon is constructing to one thing main in season 2.

The primary season of the hit HBO medical drama sees Langdon, a senior resident, being kicked out of the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Middle after he was caught stealing medicine from a affected person. 

And who turned him in? Santos, an intern who was already butting heads with Langdon attributable to her eagerness and their clashing personalities.

Season 2 sees Langdon’s anticipated return after a stint in rehab and his bother reconciling with some colleagues. The state of affairs worsens within the Feb. 26 episode that sees him paired with Santos to deal with a affected person amid the hospital’s hectic IT disaster.

Santos wheels in a affected person with a deep tongue laceration, and Langdon jumps on the case. She provides him an aggravated look, and he explains to her that senior attending physicians Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch (Noah Wyle) and Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi (Sepideh Moafi) are each already treating important sufferers.

The 2 proceed to deal with the affected person, who injured herself whereas closely consuming. They fall into previous patterns as Santos interrupts and speaks over Langdon on a number of events whereas discussing the remedy plan. One other notable second comes when a beginner suggests recommending rehab to the remedy and awkward glances are exchanged. 

Giving perception into the interactions between Santos and Langdon, Briones tells PEOPLE that her character is having bother accepting the opposite’s return. 

“Langdon coming again to the ER is a bit sudden for her,” the actress, 27, says. “I do not suppose she essentially knew that he was coming again. She’s had a tough go of it for the previous 10 months, looking for her place within the ER.”

Briones says that Santos “did the precise factor” by reporting Langdon’s actions, but it surely has left her feeling like an outsider. 

“Lots of people do not know what precisely occurred. She and Robby know the ins and outs of what occurred, however different individuals do not. They simply know that Landgon left and he or she had one thing to do with it. She’s been a little bit of a pariah for blowing the whistle on somebody who’s beloved within the ER,” she says of her character. 

The Goosebumps alum explains that Langdon and Santos conflict attributable to how they’re perceived. “She and Langdon are very comparable individuals, however she is seen as, ‘Oh, she’s an excessive amount of.’ He is the identical method and so they’re like, ‘Oh my God, he’s the very best,’ ” the actress says.

“I feel that may be a greater touch upon the society we stay in. However now with him coming again, she has to face somebody who actually made her really feel like she didn’t belong there.”

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However all good feuds should finally come to an finish, and Briones is aware of it. Because the present follows the medical workers by way of one 15-hour shift, she says their tense encounters is “resulting in one thing.”

“I feel each of them do not wanna face it. That finally goes to combust as a result of you may’t keep away from one another ceaselessly in an ER. It is solely so large. So that you’re gonna see that come to fruition.”

New episodes of The Pitt season 2 air Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO Max.