The Good Nurse director Tobias Lindholm and producer Scott Franklin joined Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York awards-season event to talk about their Netflix pic and especially the film’s two Oscar-winning stars: Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne.
Based on Charles Graeber’s crime thriller book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder and adapted by Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917), the film centers on Amy Loughren (Chastain), a nurse who starts to believe that her colleague Charlie Cullen (Redmayne) is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths.
She risks her own life to uncover the truth. Noah Emmerich, Nnamdi Asomugha and Kim Dickens also star. RELATED: Contenders New York 2022: Deadline’s Complete Coverage Lindholm said he had been waiting a long time — almost a decade in fact — to work with Chastain, who won the Best Actress Oscar last year for The Eyes of Tammy Faye. “Since seeing her in Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, it’s my dream to find something to do with her,” he said. “Jessica brings a honesty, and humanity, which is what I really love.” In The Good Nurse, Chastain’s Amy has to choose between her job and her dignity, or to protect the hospital. “It really humanizes her and indicts the system,” Franklin said about one of his favorite aspects of the film. “The fact that she gets a pat on the back by protecting the hospital and letting him go even though he’s a killer — and you seen the blood drain from her face.
It’s one of the most powerful moments in the movie.” RELATED: Contenders New York Arrivals Gallery: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Danielle Deadwyler, S.
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