Good Sam was pushed back about a year.Santos was up for the part back in 2020, when he jumped into a producer session for the series. “It was honestly one of the least stressful appointments I've ever had for a series,” he tells The Advocate.Then COVID happened.
He was initially offered the part in 2020, but it took another year to finalize everything with the pandemic in full swing. Finally, last year, the show shot the pilot.“I didn't know if the show was gonna go.
I didn't know if I was gonna go. I didn't know if the character would exist,” he explains. “And lo and behold…”Good Sam focuses on the dichotomy between young, progressive heart surgeon Dr.
Sam Griffith (Sophia Bush), who becomes the top surgeon at a hospital in Michigan after her father, Dr. Rob “Griff” Griffith (Jason Isaacs), falls into a coma.