Noah Wyle's Work on The Pitt Is 'Like Watching a Champion Ice Skater,' Says Costar Fiona Dourif (Exclusive)

• 'The Pitt' star Fiona Dourif tells PEOPLE that seeing her costar Noah Wyle lead the charge on the Max series is "like watching a champion ice skater"
• The Pitt follows a group of healthcare workers during a 15-hour shift in a Pittsburgh emergency room
• The actress says filming the show feels "like you're reporting for work in the hospital with the characters," adding, "I think it ended up creating something that is pretty special and feels really realistic"

Figure skating is a sport known for its majestic nature and artistic expression. Perhaps the complete opposite of the harsh, and oftentimes gruesome, reality of working in the medical industry. However, The Pitt star Fiona Dourif says that watching costar Noah Wyle lead the charge in the hit medical drama is a lot like "watching a champion ice skater."

Speaking with PEOPLE in an exclusive interview, Dourif, 43, recalls struggling to learn medical language to star in the Max series, which airs its finale on Thursday, April 10. 

"It was so deeply hard and interesting to watch Noah Wyle do it, who's just like effortless," she says of her costar, who starred in ER for over a decade and also executive produces and writes for The Pitt. 

"It was like watching a champion ice skater twirl around on the ice," Dourif continues. "We were just like, 'How is he doing that?' Especially when you add in the choreography with props and the surgeries, it was not easy."

In a way, their dynamic on set echoed the relationship between their characters as Dourif’s Dr. Cassie McKay is a second year resident working under Wyle’s senior attending Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch.

"I felt that way about a lot of the casting on the show," she says. "Our actual personalities felt pretty close to our characters in ways that were only purely positive. I felt like I was going into work at a hospital with people."

Dourif continues to praise Wyle, saying, "I totally look up to Noah, and I think that ultimately, so does Cassie. She looks up to Robby, so it was easy in that way."

The Pitt follows a group of healthcare workers during a 15-hour shift in a Pittsburgh emergency room. The professionals treat patients suffering through a variety of conditions, including drug overdoses, traumatic births and injuries sustained from a mass shooting at a local music festival. 

The show premiered to major success in January and quickly cemented itself as Max’s most-watched title globally. It has already been renewed for a second season. 

Dourif also tells PEOPLE that she asked her dad, Brad Dourif, for help when it came to the medical language given his experience playing a doctor in the series Deadwood. "I definitely asked for some advice about all of the medical jargon and how to get it to a place where it is effortless," the actress says of Brad, who made an appearance in the penultimate episode of the series. 

"He told me to repeat the lines 40 times, which I did at the beginning of the season," she adds of his advice. “I would get to know it so well that it was like a song I could sing."

As for her other costars, which includes Patrick Ball, Katherine LaNasa, Isa Briones and more, she shares, "I'm going to say something cheesy, but it's true. It's like a crazy family. It doesn't always happen. In fact, it's kind of rare. But everybody really, really likes each other."

With the season nearing its end, Dourif reflects on why she thinks the show "works really well," noting that it is, in part, due to the way it is filmed. 

"We shoot in order, and also the director of photography, Johanna [Coelho], sort of pre-lights everything, so there's not a lot of time in between scenes or shots," the actress explains. "And the set is enclosed like a hospital. It looks like you're walking into a hospital."

She continues, "The experience of shooting feels like you're going about your day. It moves really quickly. We shoot a lot and we shoot in order, so it feels like you're reporting for work in the hospital with the characters. I think it ended up creating something that is pretty special and feels really realistic."

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Dourif also praises the show creator, R. Scott Gemmill, and Joe Sachs, who executive produces, writes and oversees the medical accuracy in the series. "He made sure that everything was really medically accurate in a way that I'm getting a lot of feedback from medical professionals and also all of our consultants," she says of Sachs. 

"And every fourth person in that hospital was a medical professional," Dourif adds. "So there was a lot of attention paid to accuracy in a way that is really cool to be a part of."

The Pitt airs its season finale on April 10 at 9 p.m. ET on Max.