‘The Good Nurse’ Director Tobias Lindholm And Producer Scott Franklin Interview — Contenders New York – Deadline

The Good Nurse director Tobias Lindholm and producer Scott Franklin joined Deadline’s Contenders Movie: New York awards-season occasion to speak about their Netflix pic and particularly the movie’s two Oscar-winning stars: Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne.

Primarily based on Charles Graeber’s crime thriller guide The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medication, Insanity, and Homicide and tailored by Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917), the movie facilities on Amy Loughren (Chastain), a nurse who begins to consider that her colleague Charlie Cullen (Redmayne) is liable for a sequence of mysterious affected person deaths. She dangers her personal life to uncover the reality.

Noah Emmerich, Nnamdi Asomugha and Kim Dickens additionally star.

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Lindholm mentioned he had been ready a very long time — nearly a decade in reality — to work with Chastain, who gained the Greatest Actress Oscar final yr for The Eyes of Tammy Faye.

“Since seeing her in Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Darkish Thirty, it’s my dream to seek out one thing to do together with her,” he mentioned. “Jessica brings a honesty, and humanity, which is what I actually love.”

In The Good Nurse, Chastain’s Amy has to decide on between her job and her dignity, or to guard the hospital. “It actually humanizes her and indicts the system,” Franklin mentioned about one in every of his favourite points of the movie. “The truth that she will get a pat on the again by defending the hospital and letting him go despite the fact that he’s a killer — and also you seen the blood drain from her face. It’s one of the crucial highly effective moments within the film.”

Lindholm in the meantime, mentioned he obtained Redmayne to “unleash the beast.” His character Charlie is seen because the quintessential good man/arduous employee till one specific interrogation scene when Redmayne lets unfastened, displaying a aspect of the character that had not been revealed beforehand.

“We shot that scene in a small room. As we obtained there I felt I wanted to do one thing else to guarantee that he couldn’t do what he had ready — I wanted him to react to one thing else,” Lindstrom mentioned. “Then I talked to a detective who had executed a whole lot of these circumstances and he steered I cuff him to the desk and I mentioned let’s do it!”

Lindholm mentioned that what he wished to get throughout with The Good Nurse is the critique of the American health-care system. “It’s at all times fascinating to me that these methods we’ve constructed that needs to be making our lives simpler flip towards us,” he mentioned.

Verify again Monday for the panel video.