While sharing some of the first details about Netflix's Nurse Ratched series and FX's ACSImpeachment, Sarah Paulson says of the challenging roles, 'It’s our job to represent all kinds of people without judgment'
, which was picked up at Netflix with a two-season order under Murphy's new content deal with the streaming giant, is an origin story set in 1946 — 20 years prior to the events of the book and classic film starring Jack Nicholson — with a multiple-season story in mind, according to Paulson. "I don’t have this massive hairdo that is sort of iconic that Louise Fletcher had," said Paulson of Nurse Mildred Ratched, the character made famous by Fletcher in the 1975 film.
Paulson teased that Judy Davis will play her on-screen nemesis named Betsy Bucket and that the show will help viewers understand what motivated Nurse Ratched. "I don’t want to give away a piece that comes out in the second episode where you realize, 'Oh, that’s why she behaved that way,' [but] this is sort of a contextualization of how Mildred Ratched became the woman that you see in that movie.
When likening the role of Nurse Ratched to other difficult characters she's taken on in the past, Paulson explained her thinking. "A lot of times, I wish actors were less afraid of what people thought of them and they didn’t make choices that were going to get in the way of their branding, in terms of their ability to sell shoes or open a movie or something," she said. "From an acting standpoint, I feel like there’s a larger calling.
That brought Paulson to discussing the next vilified character she will be taking on with Linda Tripp. The
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