Jessica Chastain: Nurses are underpaid, overworked and underappreciated
msn.comJessica Chastain, who plays a nurse in her latest film, said she feels nurses have been “forgotten about” following the pandemic.
The American actress, 45, stars in The Good Nurse, which follows the true story of nurse Amy Loughren, who becomes suspicious that her colleague, played by Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne, is responsible for a series of patient deaths.
The crime drama, directed by Tobias Lindholm, tells the story of serial killer Charlie Cullen and is based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Charles Graeber.
At the film’s UK premiere at the BFI London Film Festival, Chastain told the PA news agency it was a “huge responsibility” portraying a nurse. “It’s a lot of work because you can’t just show up and pretend to be a nurse, and especially in Tobias’ film, which he really wanted it to feel like it’s happening in the moment, like you know what you’re doing,” she said. “We were surrounded by health care workers, all the extras on set actually did that for their professions. “I think during the pandemic, we would all go outside and clap at seven, I don’t know what time it was here but in New York it was seven, to celebrate them and acknowledge them. “And now the pandemic is over and I feel like we’ve forgotten about them.
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