The careers of Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne have been, maybe, at all times on a collision course. His related red-haired, fair-skinned look has lengthy been in contrast. When they carried out collectively on the 2017 Golden Globes, host Jimmy Fallon launched them to “Chastain and the Redmayne” by rapping to the beat of Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Membrane”.
Since assembly at a youngsters’s movie competition in Italy years in the past, they’ve additionally been associates. Even if they’re on the verge of being an occasional rival.
“I think we needed The Danish Girl, because everyone always talks about how we look alike,” Chastain says. “I took a picture of him in character in costume and I emailed Eddie and I said, ‘Stop taking my roles, (disrespectful).'”
The Good Nurse, which premiered over the weekend on the Toronto International Film Festival, brings Chastain and Redmayne collectively on display for the primary time. It is a intelligent, chilling true-life drama that revolves across the case of Charles Cullen, a nurse in East Coast hospitals who murdered a minimum of 29 sufferers. The movie is directed by Tobias Lindholm and tailored from Charles Graber’s 2013 ebook, The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder by screenwriter Christy Wilson-Cairns (1917, Last Night in Soho).
Chastain performs Amy Loughren, a New Jersey single mom nurse who befriends Cullen (Redmayne) after being employed. In an interview collectively at a resort in Toronto previous to the movie’s premiere, their simply seen chemistry within the movie was much more spectacular in particular person.
“We play friends,” Chastain says, putting extra emphasis on “playing.” “That was tough.”
“It was a pleasure,” Redmayne smiles, inflicting Chastain to snicker and sigh: “He can’t even pretend.”
The movie, which can launch in theaters on Netflix October 19 and stream on October 26, not solely offers with a stealthy serial killer, however the for-profit well being care system that allowed him to go undetected for thus lengthy. Nnamdi Asomugha and Noah Emmerich co-star as police detectives.
“For me, the script was a complicated story, a mix of this very close friendship, a tale of heroism by Jessica’s character Amy,” Redmayne says. “But in some ways, it was a question of a system, and how that system works or fails.”
The Good Nurse was initially set a number of years in the past, however Lindholm, the Danish author of a number of Thomas Vinterberg movies, together with the Oscar-winning The Other Round and The Hunt, dedicated to creating an enormous Danish miniseries, The Investigation, in regards to the 30’s dying. . Swedish journalist Kim Vol. The actors mentioned their choices and elected to attend for Lindholm.
“We had a whole lot of conversations even earlier than we began. So we knew what we needed with the movie, and we have been trying ahead to it,” Lindholm says. “We got here in with a particularly caring and loving power. We would all three cores. I believed we Together all three will make this movie.”
“They’re a dream, two of them,” he continued. “They look alike. They have the same humour. They have the same energy. And yet they are very different.”
For Chastain, 45, and Redmayne, 40, making The Good Nurse got here with some bewilderment. He stated that working with associates can imply seeing a distinct aspect of somebody. Redmayne’s character, too, is a deeply broken man who wears a mild and heat masks. Redmayne’s little hangdog physicality in The Good Nurse is in contrast to something he is finished.
“I respect that they don’t need to torture others around them to believe their performances,” says Chastain, who says she respects any actor’s course of. “I would talk to Eddie easily like this, and then ‘We have to roll,’ and here comes Charlie. It wasn’t like we had to work with Charlie. I was like, ‘Oh. I still like you’ I do, thank God!'”
The Good Nurse is Chastain’s first since she received Best Actress on the Academy Awards earlier this yr for The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Publicity has highlighted that the movie has two main Oscar winners; Redmayne received Best Actor for his Stephen Hawking in 2014’s The Theory of Everything.
“I have to say when I saw the trailer for my movie and it was both of us, I was like, ‘Yeah,'” Chastain says.
“It’s almost the best feeling,” Redmayne replies. “Because you don’t really believe it when it happens.”
Chastain beforehand had a superstition about holding an Oscar, and as soon as refused to the touch Redmayne’s award.
“But now,” she says with fun, “I’ll hold your Oscar and you can hold mine.”
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
