Key Highlights
- Howell, who plays the Nebraska-born Dr.
- Whitaker on the HBO series, is in the home stretch of filming season 2—which means that there's not even enough time to change out of Whitaker's blue scrubs before our chat.
- Even worse: Howell is giving up his lunch break to talk to me, which somehow feels like a very Whitaker thing to do.
- Such is life for a TV doctor."We all naturally get very tired, which we're all very grateful for," Howell explains.
- "It works for our characters on screen because they're all very tired at this point in the story.
