Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne's serial killer movie ‘Good Nurse' examines U.S. health care system - Fox News

Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne's new Netflix movie "Good Nurse" tells the existent communicative of serial slayer Charles Cullen, an ICU caregiver who admitted to sidesplitting 29 of his patients but whitethorn person murdered much than 300.

Based connected Charles Graeber’s 2013 book, "The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder," the movie centers connected Cullen's chap caregiver and person Amy Loughren (Chastain), who exposes his crimes and brings an extremity to his sidesplitting spree.

Director Tobias Lindholm and screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns told the Associated Press that they made a deliberate prime to absorption the communicative connected Loughren and the failures wrong the U.S. healthcare strategy that enabled Cullen to execution his victims for 16 years.

Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne's caller Netflix movie "Good Nurse" tells the existent communicative of serial slayer Charles Cullen. ((Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

"I saw the imaginable of doing a serial slayer successful a mode that we had ne'er seen it before, wherever we wouldn’t beryllium seduced by wherefore is helium doing this oregon however damaged is helium arsenic a person, but instrumentality a measurement backmost and look astatine wherefore and however would we let for this to spell on," Lindholm said. 

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"He’s not, successful my mind, Hannibal Lecter. It’s not this superb mind. It’s a reasonably elemental feline doing a reasonably elemental thing, but a strategy allowing it.

Cullen utilized his presumption arsenic a caregiver to kill his patients by injecting their IV bags with lethal doses of medications. He was capable to evade detection by transferring from infirmary to infirmary successful New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Both the publication and the movie suggest that for-profit hospitals covered up for Cullen successful bid to debar imaginable liability.

"This lawsuit asks america if it’s a bully thought that radical are making wealth from different people’s health," Lindholm said. "Is it a bully thought that hospitals are businesses?"

Wilson-Cairns starting penning her adaptation of Graeber's publication 10 years ago. She told the AP that she began her probe by visiting Loughren astatine her home.

"I turned up astatine the existent Amy’s location successful upstate New York," Wilson-Cairns recalled. "I deliberation I was 23 oregon 24. I was like: ‘I’ve ne'er done this before. It’s truly important to me. It’s your beingness story. Can you assistance me?’"

In addition, Wilson-Cairns shadowed nurses for 2 weeks astatine a infirmary successful Connecticut. "What I recovered is that the existent wellness attraction providers — the doctors, the nurses, the radiologists, the anesthesiologists — each these radical are unthinkable and are heroic," she said. 

"They enactment their lives successful a container truthful they tin assistance prevention different people. I don’t deliberation immoderate of them are paid enough. I deliberation adjacent astatine 10 times, those nurses aren’t paid enough. I learned that the strategy they are forced to enactment wrong is not the champion for diligent care."

 Cullen was sentenced to 11 consecutive beingness sentences successful 2006. (John Wheeler/Getty Images)

Chastain took inspiration for her portrayal of Loughren from her conversations with the real-life nurse. In bid to picture Loughren's arrhythmia realistically connected screen, Chastain jogged astir to get her bosom complaint up earlier filming. She besides wore an receptor portion with a bosom bushed that could accelerate portion she was shooting a scene.

"She worked nights truthful her daughters felt similar she was a stay-at-home mom. That’s what she kept saying, that her kids saw her erstwhile they were awake," Chastain said. 

"The thought that this pistillate would hazard her wellness successful bid to supply for her children and besides hazard her comfortableness by not getting the slumber she needed, it told maine truthful overmuch astir who she was and what she was susceptible of."

Redmayne, who played Cullen, watched footage of the real-life Cullen from his tribunal appearances and his 2013 interrogation connected "60 Minutes". Cullen was sentenced to 11 consecutive beingness sentences successful 2006.

"There was thing successful his physicality that was absorbing to me," Redmayne said. "He’s a precise inactive man. But if you really look close, you’ll spot he’s ever soothing himself. I don’t cognize if soothing is the close word, but touching fabrics. 

"Good Nurse" premiered astatine the Toronto International Film Festival connected Sept. 11. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)

"There’s ever thing moving. The feline was a horrendously damaged quality being and that thought of looking for comfortableness was absorbing to me."

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"Good Nurse" premiered astatine the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 11 and Loughren received a lasting ovation erstwhile she took the stage. Wilson-Cairns said that she was peculiarly moved to spot Loughren celebrated for her heroism. 

"This pistillate conscionable wasn’t recognized for what she did," Wilson-Cairn said. "People don’t deliberation of mean women arsenic these benignant of heroes. They’re not connected screens, they’re not successful the media, they’re not successful books enough. 

To spot the existent Amy yet beryllium recognized successful a tiny mode for what she did – which is prevention countless lives – I thought: That’s not a atrocious mode to walk a decade. I’d bash that again."

"Good Nurse" volition statesman streaming connected Netflix connected Oct. 26.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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