I'm here, I'm wearing makeup, I'm all dressed up.
So, you know, I'm used to being my pajamas and scrubs.
So, you know, luckily, I have some boots on that feel like slippers.
So I think I'm okay.
I really enjoyed the film, really enjoy the film.
How the how did it all began?
What was the first conversation you have?
Was Krysty Wilson-Cairns the first person you were in contact with or how did it all began?
Well, the book came out.
We did a little bit of a book tour.
It was like a little sparkler of fizz and then nothing.
And then I was still at work and still doing what I do.
And then Charles Graeber said, Hey, Darren Aronofsky,
I think, bought the rights to this and they're going to make it into a movie.
And I was they said, No, they're not.
And, you know, in my mind, I'm like, no, they're not.
Like, this is, you know,
how many people say they're going to make movies about something?
So, no, I didn't I didn't believe it.
And then Krysty Wilson-Cairns showed up.
We spent a lot of time together.
And she she really made me
feel more comfortable about what the script was going to be about.
I didn't want this to be sensationalizing.
Charlie Cullen Yeah, she seemed always I was talking to her before.
She seems like almost the perfect person to
to have been there from the beginning in terms of a screenwriter, because she
has such a great sense of what it was like and obviously she spent time with you.
It must have been great to see her work come to fruition.
Yeah. And we did foster
this friendship between us over the past seven years, eight years.
Now I think that we've known each other
and so as our friendship has evolved, also the script evolved.
And I think that both of us were able to kind of
grow up with the script, and it was her first paying job,
which is really cool that I got to be there right in the beginning.
And yes, she she made it very, very clear that
it was very much about our friendship.
It took a lot a few years for it to kind of coalesce for you all.
You must have been quite excited when finally.
Oh, it was a roller coaster,
because I would get a call to say, Oh, this is happening.
And then a couple of months go by and we don't hear anything.
And then another couple of months and it's, Oh, this is happening.
And I stopped being excited until I got a call
that I was going to meet Tobias Lindhold [director] and then it was another roller coaster.
But but Tobias really brought it home.
I didn't want to I didn't want to be a part
of anything that didn't have to be attached to it.
After we met.
Yeah, I spoke to Jessica Chastian, Eddie Redmayne earlier as well.
And Jessica was saying about how she's played real life
people before, but she's never had the real person.
So of off camera or anything else.
But you said sounds like you again had a fantastic friendship with her.
And she's very
she's like she's a very responsible actor when she plays real life people.
And that experience
seems to have helped her portray you even though you were there.
I'm glad. Well, I didn't realize.
You know, someone else just said that she
she was a little intimidated because I was on set and I was like,
Jessica Chastain was intimidated by me being on set.
Like, you know,
you just don't see them as real people until you meet them as real people.
And that's who she is.
She's playing a part and it's a craft and it's a job.
And I guess I would be the same way if somebody was standing next to me.
Well, no, probably not. I'm kind of a badass.
So I, you know, while I'm doing my trauma, well, I am running a trauma unit.
I just.
I just do.
So, yeah,
that's surprising to me that she would she would be a little intimidating.
What was your reaction to Eddie?
Because in playing this part, because he's such a nice guy
and everyone's seen him do some amazing work playing,
you know, obviously fantastic beasts and Stephen Hawking.
But was it was it weird watching him because he seems to have embodied
the bits that he needs to in order to help help tell the story.
That was one of the most emotional parts of it, is that I
you know, I haven't seen Charlie Cullen and probably ten years now
and watching him on that screen, it was Charlie.
It was Charlie.
It was the way that he moved, the way that he spoke, the way that he looked
at my character, Amy, and it was him.
He became Charlie.
And I had to I had to grasp that this wasn't the real Charlie.
This wasn't my real life playing out.
And yet it was it was very odd.
But I saw the trailer before I saw the movie
and the part in the trailer
where she changes into the murderer.
I couldn't breathe.
I could not breathe.
It felt like someone knocked the wind out of me.
He is...
He's that perfect in this role.
He's perfect.
And you've got the documentary as well on the horizon as well.
So lots of lots of things.
I just saw the documentary and it is so stunningly brilliant.
It's good.
It's a good double bill on on Netflix.
You can watch those two.
Yeah. It's not hard to see.
There's not a lot of press with a documentary, though.
It's kind of like, here it is.
Hey, people, I hope people do like their documentaries.
They are easy to stream now, so. Sure.
Yeah, watch it. Thank you so much for time.
Pleasure talking to you.