The Pitt‘s Sepideh Moafi revealed if she’s coming back for season 3 after cast exits — and those feud rumors.
Moafi, 40, who plays Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi, told Gold Derby on Thursday, June 11, that her character will have one of several “staggered entrances,” adding, “I don’t know anything yet.”
The actress was excited to see what comes next.
“I have no doubt that like a phoenix in the fire, she’ll rise,” Moafi said about how “proud” she is of playing the character.
Moafi noted that she has received messages from “not just the healthcare community, but so many people with disabilities or so many people who carry mixed identities or from marginalized communities who feel like they’ve been underrepresented.”
She continued: “I think this character has given visibility to a lot of different types of people. I’m so grateful that she exists. I’m so proud that I got to live inside of her and bring her to life. I think the thing that struck me most is the number of people with health conditions, whether it’s chronic illness or disease or disability who have reached out and said how much seeing her experience and seeing not just her condition, but also the way in which she manages it and has struggled with it and the vulnerability that she’s expressed through it has made them feel very seen.”
Moafi joined the hit HBO Max series in season 2 as Dr. Al-Hashimi. After her character had a rift with Noah Wyle’s Dr. Robby in the finale, some fans took to social media to question if the show took inspiration from real-life tension.
“We’re really great colleagues,” Moafi told Variety in May. “Noah and I have always had a great working relationship, which is why it actually felt safe to do the darker, dirtier work in episode 15, particularly because, between setups, we were shooting the s*** and laughing.”
Moafi shut down any insinuation she was at odds with Wyle, 54.
“So that’s completely false that there’s a personal sort of beef or rivalry between us, at least not that I’m aware of,” she added. “You can check with Noah, but I don’t know about this.”
Moafi’s addition to The Pitt cast came after Tracy Ifeachor‘s shocking exit. Following Ifeachor’s absence as Heather Collins in season 2, a source told Us Weekly in July 2025 that it was always the plan for her character — who was a fourth-year resident — to leave and become a doctor in future installments of the show.
The same reasoning was used when news broke that Supriya Ganesh wouldn’t reprise her role as Dr. Samira Mohan in season 3.
“It’s sort of the nature of the show. Unfortunately, the way the medical profession works, you come in, you learn, you move on, and we want to try and be as truthful to that process as possible,” executive producer R. Scott Gemmill recently explained to Us Weekly. “So we’re going to turn over our cast. But I think it’s a great launching pad for people, and that’s the best we can do.”
