After The Pitt provided extra perception into Santos and Garcia’s informal romance, Alexandra Metz is weighing in on their future.
“I feel individuals are going to like the place it lands,” Metz, 39, informed Us Weekly completely at Actors Rising Introduced by The Actor Awards and ELLE earlier this month.
The actress hinted at how the present will handle Santos (Isa Briones) and Garcia (Metz) once more, including, “If I had been to tease something, I might say we’re doubtless going to proceed to really feel issues out and hold issues informal and guarantee that it’s a wholesome dynamic in order that we are able to hold doing our jobs.”
Through the Thursday, March 5, episode of the hit HBO Max collection, Santos tried to make plans with Garcia after their shift. Garcia, nevertheless, reminded Santos that their relationship was extra informal.
“It’s all on the web page. And, additionally, it’s these little moments that you just discover on the day on the set,” Metz informed Us about working with Briones, 27, on their scenes. “It’s simply stunning issues that come to life that you just don’t essentially plan for. We simply love discovering that second to second.”
The costars have collaborated on filling the time gaps between seasons, with Metz saying, “One of many large blanks for us was, ‘Why am I sleeping over at her place when she has a roommate and I most likely have more cash and extra space?’ I got here to the conclusion of I have to be having renovations at my place as a result of there’s no different purpose. So she’s letting me crash — therefore the toothbrush second.”
The Pittwhich premiered on HBO Max in January 2025, follows a bunch of staff at a fictional Pittsburgh hospital’s ER working a single 15-hour shift. It didn’t take lengthy for Us to fall in love with the complete forged together with Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle), Dr. Langdon (Patrick Ball), Dana (Katherine LaNasa), Dr. Mohan (Ganesh), Dr. Cassie McKay (Fiona Dourif), Dr. King (Dearden), Dr. Santos (Isa Briones), Whitaker (Gerran Howell) and Javadi (Shabana Azeez).
Earlier within the season, The Pitt provided extra perception into Santos’ previous when a scene of her within the lavatory confirmed the digicam panning to scars on her outer thigh.
“Santos and Garcia have been intimate, so it’s undoubtedly a subject (between them),” Metz stated about how a lot her character is aware of about Santos’ struggles. “We speak in a while within the season when some issues come up in regard to remedy — particularly with the taking pictures final season — whether or not folks have gone to remedy or not.”
She continued: “There’s so many alternative methods of coping and we’re all simply making an attempt to do our greatest. So clearly, that’s Santos’ method of doing it presently and it’s undoubtedly in dialog.”
New episodes of The Pitt premiere on HBO Max each Thursday at 9 p.m. ET.

