The Good Nurse Director Tobias Lindholm Explains How the Film Explores the Value of Humanity

Academy-nominated director Tobias Lindholm recently sat down with Collider’s Editor-in-Chief Steve Weintraub to discuss his latest Netflix film The Good Nurse. The tense true-crime drama, which is based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Charles Graeber, is a sharp depiction of real-life nurse Charlie Cullen’s (Eddie Redmayne) numerous murders via lethal injections, and the relationship that was struck between him and fellow nurse Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain). With a script penned by Krysty Wilson-Cairns (Last Night in Soho), the film explores two polar opposite sides of man’s ability to experience compassion, or a lack thereof. During his interview with Collider, Lindholm suggests that whatever motivated Charlie to enact these chilling murders was never his main focal point, but rather, “it was about how the system allowed this to happen year after year.” The Good Nurse is told through Amy’s point of view, and it’s Amy who ultimately brings Charlie’s crimes to light. The director also gives insi