“No one would have survived under my watch,” Redmayne admits with a laugh.
“But Jess was quite brilliant.”
In a life-threatening medical situation, don’t ever trustEddie Redmayneto successfully give CPR.
Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain in ‘The Good Nurse’.Courtesy of TIFF
“I was always useless at biology and Jessica had a mind that was incredibly capable.
But Jess was quite brilliant.
She had more of a natural instinct for it.”
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after a series of mysterious patient deaths spark an investigation.
I believe they are there because you have to have a calling.
So Eddie and I went to nurse school and learned all about it.
“We went all throughout how nursing developed and Florence Nightingale, all of this stuff.
And then he started talking about parts of the body and especially the heart.
All of these things just had to become second nature for us.”
It was the same way with us in real life."
But Chastain had an extra layer of difficulty: portraying Amy’s heart condition.
After her conversations with Loughren, Chastain got an idea that she brought straight to director Tobias Lindholm.
When our heart beats fast, we’re very present of our heart and trying to calm it down.
“She had these extraordinary techniques that I wasn’t even aware of,” he says.
But her commitment is unrivaled."
The Good Nursepremieres in select theaters Oct. 19 and on Netflix Oct. 26.
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