Christobel Hastings is Stylist's Entertainment Editor whose specialist interests include pop culture, LGBTQ+ identity and lore.The Good Nurse’s entertainment editor Christobel Hastings to discuss the challenges of playing a real person, going to nursing school and how the film does true crime differently.is telling me the number one bugbear nurses have with medical dramas. “Supposedly the biggest issue that nurses have with Hollywood is the way the compressions are done,” she explains.
“It wasn’t fetishising violence and really giving us the full journey of this person who becomes this mass murderer” The preparation for the film was nothing if not thorough. Chastain attended nursing school, where she got to grips with mannequins before pulling on scrubs for the procedural scenes. “I mean, day one, it was history of nursing, like, let’s talk about Florence Nightingale,” Chastain says. “We really learned the history of it, we learned the hands-on: how do you give an IV? It made it second nature once I got on set.
“It’s shocking to hear the true story of what happened. What do they say, life is stranger than fiction?”succeeds in making you invest in Amy and Charlie’s friendship. “I never wanted Amy to feel like an idiot,” Chastain says. “You know, I wanted the audience to understand why she would bring this man… she’d allow this person to be close to her kids and family and to trust him.