“The Pitt” star Noah Wyle recently said on the “Still Here Hollywood” podcast that he missed out on roles in “Saving Private Ryan” and “Good Night, and Good Luck” because he couldn’t stop filming the long-running medical series “ER.”

When asked if there were any roles he had missed, Wyle said: “Yes, lots of them. It happens all the time. We talked about a couple of them, in fact. ‘Good night and good luck,’ George [Clooney] He offered me a role in that. I couldn’t leave ‘ER’ to do it. “They offered me the role of Private Ryan in ‘Saving Private Ryan’, but I couldn’t get out of ‘ER’ to do it.”

Wyle added that in some ways he was glad he missed out on those parts, because the people who got them made the most of the opportunity.

“I’m almost glad I didn’t do them, because, you know, those guys did those parts,” he said. “Matt Damon was Private Ryan. There were two of them. I was offered the role of Upham, which was Jeremy Davies’s role, and he was so phenomenal that I couldn’t imagine doing anything like what he did.”

Wyle currently stars in another hit medical drama, “The Pitt,” which concluded its second season on HBO Max in April. Production on season 3 began in June and will take place one day in November. “The Pitt” Season 1 took home five Emmy Awards in 2025, including best drama series and lead actor in a drama for Wyle for his role as Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch.