BGN interviews Sarah Paulson (Nurse Ratched) and Judy Davis (Nurse Bucket) to discuss working with such fully fleshed out characters on screen.
From Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, Ratched is a suspenseful drama series that tells the origin story of asylum nurse Mildred Ratched. In 1947, Mildred arrives in Northern California to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital where new and unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind.
On a clandestine mission, Mildred presents herself as the perfect image of what a dedicated nurse should be, but the wheels are always turning and as she begins to infiltrate the mental health care system and those within it, Mildred’s stylish exterior belies a growing darkness that has long been smoldering within, revealing that true monsters are made, not born.
Interviewer: Jeandra LeBeauf
Video Editor: Kassandra Igbokwe
Ratched premieres on Netflix September 18, 2020.