First Look at the new show "Trauma"

Welcome to Young Hollywood. com. Hey there, it's Michelle Marie with Young Hollywood. I'm here with Derek Luke and Anya of Trauma, brand new show on NBC.

Yes, let's just take a moment. We don't have a moment.

Hey, sir. There's a kid back there. He's in really bad shape. Please help him.

Mommy, I got two kids in my arm. We are going to do everything we can. We got picked up. I heard it was very quick. And man, I got so excited. I mean, we're filming it in San Francisco, one of the best cities. You can't fake certain things. You can't fake the Golden Gate Bridge. You know, there's a beautiful shot of Derek, you know, having kind of a private moment and in the backdrop is the Golden Gate Bridge. So here we are getting to do all the action of ER with the backdrop of San Francisco. So instead of, you know, cutting open a patient's throat in a hospital bed, you're cutting open a kid's throat in a moving helicopter on the Golden Gate Bridge or in the middle of a gang war on Mission Avenue.

It makes your roles probably easier because they're in that environment too.

It You know what? It does and that's what I love about it. Like, you know, having film under my belt is that I didn't feel like it was TV, I felt like it was film, because we're on location and we're shooting in the in the magnificent city of San Francisco. So that that makes it awesome. It felt very, very comfortable.

So let's talk about this show and just give us a little backstory.

Right, but I could not bring this home. And I still can't. I can't bring this home to my family. My wife and my kids. Bro, you understand? Yeah. My character name is Boon. I play a paramedic, and he's also a family man. So it makes his job complicated because you don't want to bring home all this conflict. We are the first responders and that means life and death situation. It all depends on a paramedic and his assessment of the injured and, you know, as far as the well-being of that particular patient. And you know, we did right along, you know, for my character. And you got to see the real life thing. I mean, you saw Caesar's accidents, Cold Brown, burn victims. It's there's no hiding, you know, and one of the paramedics said it best. He says, usually you'll know a paramedic because a paramedic is running into the fire and people are usually running away.

How do you actually get into the character and the role? Because this is such an intense show.

You know, you are really good with the medicine. Best I've ever seen. You are an irresponsible idiot. Maybe you can't die, Rabbit, but I can't. My character is a helicopter pilot. So first I changed, you know, my anatomy because you can't fake that. You either, you know, have muscles, you can either do 50 pushups or you can't. So that was the first thing that I did. And then the second thing was feeling as comfortable as possible in that 212 helicopter, because I wanted people to look at this character and say, wow, that's her home.

You should tune in to Trauma because there's high action, character driven. It's like watching the movie right at home. You don't have to pay any admission, just turn on your TV. You can TVO, tape it, catch the series, but you're going to love it.