“One of many huge questions of the piece, which the piece doesn’t attempt to reply, is why — how may this human being do that?” exclaims Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne about taking part in Charlie Cullen, the nurse who confessed to murdering as much as 40 sufferers throughout his 16-year profession, in Netflix’s coming film The Good Nurse. Consultants have figured that Cullen was liable for as many as 400 deaths in his medical profession. He’s serving 18 consecutive life sentences.
“This man was staggeringly broken,” provides Redmayne who expounds right here in our TIFF studio on Cullen’s previous; the actor learning information footage to nail down his offbeat demeanor.
The Tobias Lindholm directed film relies off the Charles Graeber ebook, The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medication, Insanity, and Homicide. Jessica Chastain performs Amy Loughren, Cullen’s former co-worker and buddy, who wind up being key in getting him to confess to his crimes; his Dr. Kevorkian-like maneuvers, swept underneath the carpet in his employment historical past as he went from hospital to hospital.
Says Chastain, who a yr in the past went from her TIFF premiere of The Eyes of Tammy Faye to a Greatest Actress Oscar win this yr, “I couldn’t imagine that one thing so horrible, occurred particularly within the medical trade, wasn’t so broadly identified.”
Loughren was an on-set supply for Chastain and the movie workforce. The previous evening nurse battled an enormous coronary heart downside throughout her time with Cullen; a element which creates additional suspense through the movie.
Says Lindholm, “I don’t know the American healthcare system that effectively, however I do know techniques. I understand how usually we get alienated from them on a regular basis and I felt that dehumanizing course of was attention-grabbing to have a look at up in opposition to the deep basic humanity.”
The Good Nurse makes its world premiere tonight at TIFF. Good Nurse hits theaters on Oct. 19 and drops on Netflix on Oct. 26.
