When one thinks of Nurse Ratched, the much-despised caregiver who menaces and eventually lobotomizes Jack Nicholson’s character in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, they think of Louise Fletcher’s haunting, detached performance.
But with the upcoming Netflix series “Ratched”, prolific TV creator Ryan Murphy, after happening upon a spec script by Evan Romansky, is hoping to bring a new interpretation of this iconic antagonist, taking a closer look at her life before her outright villainy in writer Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel.
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