• Trauma Star Aimee Garcia on Playing in the Boys' Club

  • Oct 18, 2009 10:00 PM ET by Robyn Ross
  
  A female pilot is no different than a male pilot: That's what Aimee Garcia learned when preparing for her "badass" role as Iraqi war veteran and helicopter pilot Marisa Benez on NBC's Trauma(Mondays at 9/8c). Garcia told TVGuide.com about how she prepared for this challenging role, how the paramedic community's response has influenced future episodes and what's in store for Marisa in future episodes.
  
  

  TVGuide.com: Can you talk about Monday's episode where Marisa believes Rabbit has post-traumatic stress disorder?
  Garcia: She's very quick to recognize it because she has it herself. It's a very important episode for the development of her character because she has more street cred than any other character. She's probably seen more than Rabbit and she's seen people have PTSD and have it not end well. Rabbit is reckless, but he's not dumb and he knows who to listen to about certain things. She's had many near-death experiences, and he's had one, so when she talks about what that does to you mentally, he listens, and that's what this episode is about.

  
  

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 Page 36 "People on the Verge"

October 12, 2009 By: Scott Harris

"It's like 'ER' times 10." 

That's how actress Aimee Garcia described her new show 'Trauma' to us when we caught up to her recently. The medical drama, which airs Mondays at 9PM as part of NBC's revamped line-up, "pushes the envelope on all levels. It's like 'ER', but instead of opening someone's throat in an operating room, you're opening someone's throat in a moving helicopter." 

Garcia, who plays pilot Marisa Benez, dished about riding along on actual 911 calls, hanging from a crane and feedback from real-life EMTs. 

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