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How he would slag off his own sort of existence. When I spoke to the real Amy she said this is two different people-“I only met the murderer Charlie Cullen once.” We’d talk endlessly about his humanity and his kindness and his gentleness and his self-deprecating humor. What I found intriguing about Good Nurse is this was someone who seemingly had empathy and then weaponized that empathy in a way that was terrifying. But I do like the idea that a lot of the characters I played have empathy as something inherent to them. The truth is I hadn’t been looking for something specific-every script, I just react to what is presented in front of me. Without you knowing it, that’s the trajectory you get taken on for a while. But then of course you do a film that you become known for and then that’s the world. So I’ve done all these films, no one’s seen them-in some cases, fortunately. I did a film called Hick that has 5% on Rotten Tomatoes, in which I played a Texan meth addict pedophile. So I did all these films for years: I did a film called Savage Grace with Julianne Moore, in which I played a guy called Anthony Bacon who killed his mother. Did The Good Nurse appeal in that way, or feel like going to a darker place than you typically do?Įddie Redmayne: The truth is, you do a load of work before anyone sees any of the work you’ve done. Vanity Fair: It’s safe to say you’re associated with relatively heroic roles. As he tells me in a wide-ranging interview from his Toronto hotel: He’s finished compromising. As he comes off what he describes as a career-best experience in The Good Nurse, with another performance likely to court some awards attention, the 40-year-old actor knows he has some options and has come to a new kind of conclusion for himself. Redmayne has balanced these rich kinds of roles, of late, with the Fantastic Beasts franchise, the third film of which was released earlier this year.
It’s another transformation for an actor who’s made a habit of them-winning Oscars (The Theory of Everything) and Olivier Awards (Cabaret) for comprehensive inside-out work. In Tobias Lindholm’s deliberate Netflix thriller, which costars Jessica Chastain as Charlie’s close colleague-turned-adversary and premiered Sunday night at the Toronto International Film Festival, Redmayne is disarmingly sweet and affecting in his loneliness-and then, in a corker of a final scene, completely frightening.
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In a wide-ranging sitdown in Toronto, the Oscar winner goes deep on his process, his tensely brilliant turn in The Good Nurse, and changing his priorities going forward.Įddie Redmayne came into The Good Nurse, his first non-franchise film since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, knowing that he needed to pull off a tricky role: Charlie Cullen, the real-life serial killer whose reputation as a compassionate nurse belied a sociopathic, murderous habit of killing dozens, maybe hundreds of patients. Eddie sits down in Toronto with Vanity Fair to discuss his newest film, The Good Nurse.
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