"Weeks upon weeks upon weeks." That’s how long it took, says costume designer Lou Eyrich, to gain Ryan Murphy’s approval on the precise hue and weight of the bluish-green fabric for the hospital uniforms in Ratched, his origin story for the nurse memorably played by Louise Fletcher in 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
The horror series, starring Sarah Paulson as Mildred Ratched, premieres Sept. 18 on Netflix. Eyrich and co-costume designer Rebecca Guzzi are used to Murphy’s meticulous attention to detail. "I’ve worked with Ryan for 20 years, so there’s a little bit of shorthand, but this project seemed very special to him," Eyrich says.
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