Jessica Chastain, star of Netflix's new film The Good Nurse, discusses taking on the role of a real-life nurse and why the film does true crime differently. 

The Good Nurse: Jessica Chastain on making the true crime drama

It wasn’t fetishising violence and really giving us the full journey of this person who becomes this mass murderer

We were surrounded by real nurses so we really had to look like we knew what we were doing

It’s shocking to hear the true story of what happened. What do they say, life is stranger than fiction?

These are people who are underpaid, overworked, understaffed and underappreciated

To have her see how extraordinary she is – it’s a beautiful thing to be a part of

The Oscar-winner plays a real-life nurse who stopped a prolific serial killer in the new Netflix film. 

“Life is stranger than fiction”: Jessica Chastain on her chilling new Netflix drama The Good Nurse