10 Years before The Housemaid, Rebecca Ferguson starred in a blockbuster thriller based on a bestselling novel. The movie is leaving Netflix soon.
The phenomenal success of The Housemaid, which grossed around $400 million worldwide against a reported budget of $35 million, was more than a decade in the making.
Hollywood had always relied on books for inspiration, but it was only during the 2010s that it found an entirely new demographic on"Bookstagram" and"BookTok" — the corners of social media dedicated to popular potboilers. In the years leading up to The Housemaid, movies such as Where the Crawdads Sing, It Ends with Us, and even Little Women did solid box-office business. Streaming, on the other hand, delivered films such as The Thursday Murder Club and The Woman in Cabin 10.
But this wave of book adaptations began in 2014, with David Fincher's Gone Girl, and continued with another hit movie that's celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. It was released during a particularly successful period in Emily Blunt's career, 10 years after her breakout role in another blockbuster literary adaptation, The Devil Wears Prada. Blunt can currently be seen in The Devil Wears Prada 2, which has grossed nearly $500 million worldwide so far.
The sequel was released in the wake of another blockbuster book adaptation, Project Hail Mary, starring Ryan Gosling. Blunt's co-stars in the 2016 thriller were Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett, Justin Theroux, and Luke Evans. The movie was directed by Tate Taylor and based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins. COLLIDER Collider · Quiz Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In?
The Pitt · ER · Grey's Anatomy · House · Scrubs Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.
🚨The Pitt 🏥ER 💉Grey's 🔬House 🩺Scrubs FIND YOUR HOSPITAL → QUESTION 1 / 8APPROACH 01 A critical patient comes through the door. What's your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are. AStay completely present — block everything else out and work through it step by step, right now.
BTriage fast and delegate — get the right people on the right problems immediately. CTrust my gut and move — I work best when I stop overthinking and just act. DAsk the question everyone else is ignoring — what's the thing that doesn't fit? ETake a breath, make a joke to cut the tension, and then get to work — panic helps no one.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 2 / 8MOTIVATION 02 Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you'd give in an interview. ABecause I wanted to be where it matters most — right at the edge, when someone's life is actually on the line. BBecause I wanted to help people — genuinely, one patient at a time, in a system that makes it hard.
CBecause I was drawn to the intensity of it — the stakes, the drama, the feeling of being fully alive. DBecause medicine is the most interesting puzzle there is — and I needed a problem worth solving. EBecause I wanted to make a difference — and also, honestly, I didn't know what else to do with my life.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 3 / 8COLLEAGUES 03 What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are. ACompetence and calm — I need people who don't fall apart when things get bad. BTrust and reliability — I want to know that when I pass something off, it's handled.
CConnection — I want colleagues who become family, even if that gets complicated. DIntelligence and the willingness to be challenged — I have no interest in people who just agree with me. EFriendship — people I actually like spending twelve hours a day with, because those hours are going to happen either way.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 4 / 8LOSS 04 You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who's worked a long shift has had to answer this question. AI carry it.
All of it. I don't look for ways to put it down — that weight is part of doing this work honestly. BI process it and move — you have to, or the next patient suffers for the one you just lost. CI feel it deeply and lean on the people around me — I don't think you're supposed to handle that alone.
DI go back over every decision — not to punish myself, but because I need to understand what I missed. EI grieve it genuinely, find some way to laugh about something unrelated, and try to be kind to myself — imperfectly.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 5 / 8STYLE 05 How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image. AIntense and completely present — no small talk during a shift, but exactly who you want there. BSteady and dependable — not the flashiest in the room but never the one who drops something.
CPassionate and occasionally chaotic — brilliant on the hard cases, prone to drama everywhere else. DBrilliant and difficult — right more often than anyone else, and everyone knows it, including me. EWarm and self-deprecating — not the most intimidating presence, but genuinely good at this and easy to like.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 6 / 8RULES 06 How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice. AProtocol is the floor, not the ceiling — I follow it until the patient needs something it can't provide.
BI respect it — the system is broken in places, but the structure is there for a reason and I work within it. CI follow it until my instincts tell me not to — and my instincts are usually right, even when they cause problems. DRules are for people who haven't thought hard enough about when to break them. EI try to follow it and mostly do — with a few memorable exceptions that still come up in meetings.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 7 / 8TOLL 07 What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What's yours? AEverything outside these walls — I've given this job my full attention and the rest of my life has gone around it.
BMy idealism, mostly — I came in believing the system could be fixed and I've made a complicated peace with that. CStability — my personal life has been as chaotic as the OR, and that's not entirely a coincidence. DMy relationships — I am not easy to know, and the people who've tried to would probably agree. EMy sense of gravity — I use humour as a coping mechanism, which not everyone appreciates in a hospital.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 8 / 8PURPOSE 08 At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you. AThe fact that it's real — that nothing else I could be doing would matter this much, right now, today. BThe patients — individual human beings who needed something and got it because I was there.
CThe people I work with — I have walked through impossible things with these people and I'd do it again. DThe next unsolved case — there's always another puzzle, and I'm not done yet. EBecause despite everything — the exhaustion, the loss, the absurdity — I actually love this job. REVEAL MY HOSPITAL → Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In… Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others.
This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for. Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center The Pitt You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn't let you look away.
County General Hospital, Chicago ER You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential. Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle Grey's Anatomy You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ House You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn't fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one. Sacred Heart Hospital, California Scrubs You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.
↻ RETAKE THE QUIZ Here's When You Can Watch Emily Blunt and Rebecca Ferguson's Thriller on Netflix We're talking, of course, about The Girl on the Train. Produced on a reported budget of around $50 million, the film grossed nearly $175 million worldwide. It now holds a 44% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads,"Emily Blunt's outstanding performance isn't enough to keep The Girl on the Train from sliding sluggishly into exploitative melodrama.
" The film will be released on Netflix on June 1. It serves as a neat companion piece to the similarly pulpy The Housemaid, which has been dominating the PVOD charts for several weeks. A sequel to The Housemaid, with director Paul Feig and star Sydney Sweeney returning, is expected to enter production soon.
Meanwhile, Ferguson will be seen in the third season of Apple TV's Silo and in Dune: Part Three later this year. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates. The Girl on the Train Like Follow Followed R Thriller Mystery Drama Crime Release Date October 5, 2016 Runtime 112 minutes Director Tate Taylor Writers Erin Cressida Wilson Producers Celia D. Costas, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Marc Platt Cast See All Powered by Expand Collapse
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