The effort was worth it, he explained, because he wanted The Good Nurse, now streaming on Netflix, to offer more than just spectacle and speculation. When they finished, Lindholm told me over Zoom last month, “there were not that many scenes left.” They didn’t force in any conventional thrills: high-octane car chases, close shaves with the police, flashbacks that attempted to explain Charlie’s motivations. They deleted the sequence in which he nearly catches his fellow nurse Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain) gathering evidence of his offenses. They excised the moments that showed the murderer, Charlie Cullen (played by Eddie Redmayne), returning to his sparse basement home. The Good Nurse is a film about a serial killer, but when Tobias Lindholm signed on to direct it, he and the screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns removed any scenes that felt like they belonged in a typical serial-killer film.
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