"I'm A F****ing Useless Nurse" – What Eddie Redmayne Learned Prepping For "The Good Nurse"

HEY, EVERYBODY. WELCOME BACK. WELCOME BACK TO THE SHOW. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MY FIRST GUEST IS THE ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING ACTOR YOU KNOW FROM “THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING,” “THE DANISH GIRL,” AND “FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM.” NOW, HE STARS IN “THE GOOD NURSE.” I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT HARD FEELINGS. >> WHY NOT? IS IT BECAUSE WHAT THEY’RE >> WHY NOT? IS IT BECAUSE WHAT THEY’RE SAYING IS TRUE? BECAUSE YOU KNOW I’M– I WULDN’T CARE IF YOU DID THOSE THINGS. I MEAN I COULD UNDERSTAND. PLEASE WELCOME BACK TO “THE LATE SHOW,” EDDIE REDMAYNE. (APPLAUSE). SHOW,”

EDDIE REDMAYNE. (APPLAUSE). >> Stephen: WELCOME BACK. >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME, MATE. >> Stephen: NICE TO SEE YOU, AND A LOT IN A FEW DAYS BECAUSE HI THE PLEASURE OF INTERVIEWING AT THE FILM FESTIVAL SATURDAY NIGHT, HI A GREAT TIME, I HOPE DID YOU TOO. >> I HAD A WONDERFUL TIME T WAS A TREAT, IT WAS AMAZING TO BE TALKING ABOUT A FILM THAT TOOK PLACE KIND OF CLOSE BY. >> Stephen: THAT WAS THE THING. I ALSO GOT TO SEE THE MOVIE, THE GOOD NURSE. AND I BEAUTIFUL PERFORMANCE FROM YOU AND JESSICA CHASTAIN AND

FASCINATING STORY. BUT HARROWING. >> TERRIFYING. >> Stephen: TERRIFYING, THIS IS A TRUE STORY OF CHARLES COHEN, SO YOU ARE PLAYING THIS SERIAL KILLER WHO

POLICE, HOW MANY, HE CONFESSED TO HOW MANY AS A NURSE WHERE HE POISONED, HOW DID HE DO IT? >> SO HE WAS A NURSE AND A GENTLE, KIND, SELF-DEPRECATING SORT OF FUNNY MAN WHO INGRATIATES HIMSELF TO PEOPLE. BUT WAS KILLING, WELL, HE WAS SPECIFICALLY HE ADMITTED TO 29. BUT I THINK IT MIGHT BE MORE THAN 400. SO PEOPLE BELIEVE HE MAYING THE MOST PROLIFIC SERIAL KILLER IN AMERICAN HISTORY. AND HE WAS

DOING BY INJECTING INSULIN INTO SALINE BAGS AND THESE BAGS WERE GOING OUT FROM THE STORE ROOMS. >> Stephen: HE WOULD DO IN IN THE STORE ROOMS, THEY WEREN’T HIS PATIENT, THEY WEREN’T NECESSARILY CONNECTED. >> NO, THEY WOULD GO OUTLINING BOMBS BUT THE TERRIFYING THING IS THAT SOME OF THE INSTITUTIONS KIND OF KNEW OR SUSPECTED THAT HE WAS DOING IT. >> Stephen: THAT IS THE MOST HARROWING PART IS THAT THERE IS NO WAY THEY DIDN’T KNOW ANYTHING. THERE WAS NO SUSPICION AND THEY JUST. >> FOR MONTHS. >> Stephen: THEY DIDN’T WANT TO DEALED WITH RAMIFICATIONS, ONE

IMAGINES. >> SO IT TOOK THIS EXTRAORDINARY WOMAN CALLED AMY LOCKHORN PLAYED BY JESSICA WHO WAS A SINGLE MUM, NIGHT NURSE WHO BECAME VERY CLOSE TO CHARLIE. AND IT TOOKS HER TO KIND OF ACCOMPLISH WHAT THE SYSTEMS FAILED TO DO. SO IN SOME WAYS THE FILM, WHAT I THOUGHT WAS AMAZES ABOUT THE FILM WHEN I READ IT, IS IT IS ALMOST LIKE A SORTED OF HERO’S JOURNEY AND FOCUSES MORE ON HER THAN IT DOES ON THE HORRIFIC THINGS THAT HE WAS DOING. >> Stephen: AND I DON’T WANT TO GIVE ANYTHING AWAY. >> I FEEL LIKE I

HAVE GIVEN QUITE A LOT AWAY. >> Stephen: YOU HAVEN’T. PEOPLE CAN LOOK UP. PEOPLE CAN LOOK UP WHO THE GUY WAS. GOOGLE IS YOUR– BUT THE ONE THING I WON’T SPOIL IS ESSENTIALLY HOW IT ALL CAME ABOUT THAT IT WAS– THE POLICE GOT THE PROOF. IS THAT IT WAS RELATED TO HER OWN HUMANITY AND DECENCY, ESSENTIALLY. >> EXACTLY. THE THING THAT I THOUGHT, ARE YOU RIGHT, THERE ARE SO MANY TRUE CRIME FILMS AND TV SHOWS OUT THERE NOW. BUT WHAT I FOUND UNIQUE ABOUT THIS IS THAT THIS WOMAN MANAGED TO PREVENT WHAT ALL THE SYSTEMS

HAD FAILED TO DO. BUT THROUGH PASSION AND HUMANITY AND THAT WAS INTRIGUING TO ME. >> Stephen: I UNDERSTAND YOU AND JESSICA DID– YOU DID NURSING TRAINING, SO YOU WOULD GET THIS– BECAUSE THERE IS A WHOLE LOT OF, SORT OF OF, IN THE RUN OF DOING THIS MOVIE, YOU ARE TREATING PATIENTS. >> YEAH. >> Stephen: HOW DID THAT GO? >> NOT SO GREAT. I’M A USELESS NURSE, BUT– . >> Stephen: YOU DIDN’T GET TO TREAT ACTUAL PATIENTS. >> NO, WE DIDN’T. WE WENT TO NURSE SCHOOL WHICH INVOLVED THIS AMAZING GUY CALLED JOE WHO WAS A PEDIATRIC

ICU NURSE TEACHING JESSICA AND I FOR A FEW WEEKS THE INTRICACIES OF NURSING. VARIOUS THINGS I LEARNED, ONE IS I AM NOT GOOD IN A CRISIS. JESSICA REALLY GOOD IN A CRISIS BECAUSE JESSICA IS REALLY DECISIVE AND YOU KNOW, WE’LL GO IN AND COME UP WITH A CONCLUSION QUICKLY. WHEREAS I SPEND A LOT OF TIME DITTER, I DON’T QUITE KNOW, MAYBE I SHOULD– THE ODD THING ALSO, WE ARE TAUGHT CPR AND THE THING THEY GET WRONG OFF THEN FIMS AND TV WITH CPR IS THEY BEND THEIR ARMS WHEN ARE YOU DOING, THAT AND YOU ARE

MEANT TO HAVE STRAIGHT ARMS. >> Stephen: REALLY. >> RANDOMLY, DO YOU IT TO THE RHYTHM OF STAYIN ALIVE BY THE BEE GEE, AAA, BUT THE ONLY THING THEY DON’T REALLY TELL YOU IS THAT YOU ALSO HAVE TO DO IT SO HARD THAT YOU ALMOST BREAK RIBS. AND SO THAT THING, I FIND KIND OF A BIT STRESSFUL. BECAUSE THIS PERSON CLEARLY MIGHT BE DYING BUT MAYBE THEY ARE NOT DYING AND WHAT IF I GO AND BREAK THEIR RIBS, MAYBE I AM GOING TO KILL THEM. >> Stephen: ARE YOU NOT GREAT IN A CRISIS BUT DID YOU

LEARN ANYTHING, COULD YOU GIVE ME MY BOOSTER SHOT. >> ABSOLUTELY NOT. >> Stephen: YOU COULDN’T STICK A NEEDLE IN ME. >> THE DIRECTOR WOULD FIND ME IN THE MORNING WITH THE LIKE MODEL, DUMBIE, INJECTING THINGS, BECAUSE I WAS SO BAD AT IT BUT WHEN ARE YOU ACTUALLY DOING THE PIECE ITSELF, YOU HAVE TO LOOK LIKE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. AND IN OUR FIRST TAKE OF THE FIRST SCENE T SAY BIT NERVE-RACKING ON DAY ONE ANYWAY, I MANAGED TO INJECT MYSELF, SO I AM NOT LYING WHEN I SAY I WAS PRETTY HORRENDOUS NURSE, YEAH.

>> Stephen: WE HAVE TO TAKE A QUICK BREAK BUT STICK AROUND, WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH MORE EDDIE REDMAYNE, EVERYBODY. (APPLAUSE)