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The Good Nurse (2022)
Directed by Tobias Lindholm
Cinematography by Jody Lee Lipes
from Charles Cullen's hand-illustrated zine Chicken Truck. (Youtube / Website )
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Watch: "Evil Embodied: Eddie Redmayne's Chilling Performance as Most Prolific Serial Killer | Netflix
Oscar®-winning actor Eddie Redmayne discusses his immersion into the role of serial killer Charlie Cullen in Netflix original film The Good Nurse. Director Tobias Lindholm and co-star Jessica Chastain praise the actor's full-body performance and the dignity he brought to it.
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Check out an exclusive featurette about Redmayne’s performance as serial killer Charles Cullen in Netflix’s “The Good Nurse.”
Charles Graeber’s book is now a movie and a documentary.
When Charles Graeber first met Charlie Cullen, the prolific serial killer was already in prison. It wasn’t Cullen’s rap sheet that interested Graeber; it was something far stranger. “He was trying to donate a kidney from jail, and I thought that was a really bizarre story,” the author and journalist tells Tudum. “And what was even stranger was that the family members of his victims didn’t want the killer nurse who’d played God with their loved ones playing God from behind bars.” As Graeber dug deeper into the sordid details of the case, he learned that Cullen’s crimes stretched far further than believed — there was more to the story than just one man’s deadly urges.
Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain) shares a scene with Detectives Tim Braun (Noah Emmerich) and Danny Baldwin (Nnamdi Asomugha).
How did you first get involved with this story? When I first heard about this very strange story, the story at the time was [that] a mercy killer had been operating in hospitals and somehow gaming the system. And eventually, those hospitals figured it out, caught him, and he was now in jail. Unfortunately, Charlie Cullen wasn’t speaking to anybody at that point. He was really determined to disappear and take that story with him. And the hospitals seemed perfectly happy with that as well. But then he started speaking to me, and we started exchanging letters and then meeting.
And as I got to know him and learn more about him, I discovered that this fairly simple story wasn’t the real story at all. In fact, the opposite was true. He’d been caught over and over again, but never stopped. He’d been allowed to move on from hospital to hospital for 16 years, nine hospitals, a nursing home — each time with neutral or positive references. The experts I spoke to that know this best put the real number of victims somewhere between 300 and 400 people. And that institutional failure was a story that wasn’t being told.
How did Amy Loughren enter the narrative for you? Other people with pieces of this story were also willing to trust me — detectives, priests, some family members, other whistleblowers, the other nurses. The group kept growing.
Charlie Cullen (Eddie Redmayne) and Amy Loughren (Chastain).
The movie really centers on the relationship between Charlie and Amy. How true to life is that? They were sort of work spouses. They bonded very quickly. Amy’s really a very protective person. She had a childhood of trauma and damage. And she survived that by becoming stronger, tougher and fiercely loyal to her friends. And she thought Charlie was someone who needed protection. Charlie Cullen, as it happens, is a character that over and over again seeks that sort of relationship. And so they fit into each other’s personalities, and they also depended on each other at work. And Amy depended on Charlie to help her as her heart condition worsened. So that relationship really felt true to me in terms of the dynamic, how they worked together, relied on each other and had a sort of gallows humor.
Charlie faces justice.
What assistance did you offer Eddie Redmayne? Some of my favorite interactions were when Eddie Redmayne came on board, and he had so many questions about Charlie Cullen and what he was really like and what was driving him. But also so much anxiety about playing a psychopath — someone who didn’t have empathy. An actor trying to play someone without empathy is such a challenge. He had so many questions and was such a sponge. He took things I didn’t really remember saying and used them to help him form that character, which is so remarkable. The detectives, I spoke to them after they saw the film for the first time, and they said, ‘That’s him!’ There are certain scenes I could point out specifically where we weren’t sure if maybe they’ve CGI’d something because he was so much like this person in real life.
There’s also a documentary, Capturing the Killer Nurse, coming out next month. What was your involvement like as executive producer? They’re really doing a different job. The film focuses on a narrow piece of time in the relationship between Charlie and Amy. It focuses also on Amy, the character that we could sympathize with, and the absolute shock of having someone like Charlie come and enter her normal life. The book doesn’t start that way because it starts with Charlie and doesn’t treat him as a monster. I think empathy is the best tool you can have as a storyteller. And so I just went in and tried to describe a young man going through life and making choices. I don’t tell you what he is. I just look at his actions and help you come to that conclusion.
Amy at work.
What do you hope that your book and the movie and documentary communicate to people about this situation? There’s never even been a grand jury to examine the role the hospitals played in passing Charlie along, keeping this killing career alive. The detectives, they really wanted a grand jury, and it was denied, on a political level. So their offices and the hospitals certainly didn’t want that. There’s really never been a reckoning, except for in the court of public opinion. But that group of informed, outraged people just grew by however many people have Netflix, go to the theaters or have access to the library or bookstore. Charlie’s in jail. Everyone else on the institution side got raises and promotions on the back of this. They did a good job protecting their institution, but they didn’t do good. And it really makes you question what our health-care system is for, what it’s supposed to do. Is it supposed to be a profit center? Is it for shareholders and board members, or is it for us and for our greater well-being?
I also hope and believe that through all this, there’s going to be an even greater appreciation for the hard work that nurses do, mitigating life and death for minimum wage and working hard at it. We’ve just come through a pandemic crisis, but we also have a nursing crisis right now. The nurses are burned out. Banging pots and pans at a certain hour is a really nice gesture. But I think some greater reckoning and appreciation for what they do is necessary.
This interview has been edited for quality and length.
You can buy Graeber’s book, The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder,through his website. The Good Nurse is streaming on Netflix now. Capturing the Killer Nurse hits Netflix on Nov. 11.
Me, out of nowhere: hey did you know that there was a serial killer, Charles Cullen, that killed at least 35 people but probably more like 400 because he killed at hospitals and it was so easy for him to just overdose them or something
Me: He got away with it so easily for so long and he thought he was killing them painlessly but he wasn't. Also some of it was done in Allentown, Pennslyvania
Me: guess what! Billy Joel has a song about Allentown and-
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I read Charles Graeber’s novel in 2018 after the project was first reported in the media and I’m so excited. This is a very interesting story and I’m sure Eddie will be phenomenal in the role.
Together again!!
"This was really fun and Eddie Redmayne is really remarkably talented. I don't know how he does that, playing the MC of Death night after night but somehow having time for a quick backstage reunion.See the show."
Source : Charles Graeber, the Good Nurse Author, on IG
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