Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorRyan Murphy had a very specific look in mind for Lucia State Hospital, a mental institution that’s at the center of his new Netflix series, “Ratched” (premiering Sept.
18), a “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” prequel and origin story for Nurse Ratched (Sarah Paulson) that takes place in 1947.“He wanted the hospital not to seem like a hospital, but to be a very glamorous hotel that had been converted into a hospital,” says Oscar- and Emmy-nominated production designer Judy Becker, who has also worked with Murphy on “Feud: Bette and Joan,” “American Crime Story” and “Pose.” “The kind of hotel that movie stars used to go to.
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