Louise Fletcher One Flew Over The Cuckoo S Nest Nurse Ratched

It follows mildred ratched paulson when she gets a job at lucia state hospital in 1947 and shows how the job creates the cold nurse she becomes in one flew over the cuckoo s nest.

Louise fletcher one flew over the cuckoo s nest nurse ratched. I find it too painful said. Louise fletcher says she can t bear to watch one flew over the cuckoo s nest because the nurse ratched character she won an oscar for is so cruel. As played by louise fletcher nurse ratched ruled the roost at a mental institution the movie filmed at the oregon state hospital in salem where randle mcmurphy jack nicholson and other. The one flew over the cuckoo s nest villain remains fletcher s defining role a character whose name alone conjures the image of a terrifyingly prim bureaucrat.

The tv show set in 1947 follows ratched as she arrives in northern california to work at a psychiatric hospital where doctors have been conducting experiments on the human mind. The character is known for her abusive passive aggressive treatment of the patients of an oregon psychiatric hospital. Nurse mildred ratched from one flew over the cuckoo s nest is one of the most famous movie villains of all time. Sarah paulson the show s lead said she felt nervous and a bit incapable taking on the character a role for which louise fletcher won a lead actress oscar.

Two words grant louise fletcher pop culture immortality. Louise fletcher never played another role as remarkable as the one for which she won an oscar in 1976. With ryan murphy s forthcoming series set to carve out her character s backstory fletcher reveals the method. Her soft spoken calm made ratched seem rational when in reality she was abusive and power hungry.