He made his name — and won an Oscar — by playing good guys. Professor Stephen Hawking, a dedicated Victorian scientist in The Aeronauts and a political activist in The Trial Of The Chicago 7 all made Eddie Redmayne the go-to guy for playing up-standing characters. The enigmatic title role in The Day Of The Jackal seems to have changed all that, but he actually ventured over to the darker side in a crime thriller from 2022 tucked away on Netflix which you can enjoy right now.
Yes two years before he became The Jackal, Redmayne played another calculating killer in a lesser-known but nonetheless powerful film. His most frightening performance to date, in 2022’s The Good Nurse, is only available on Netflix. Starring alongside Jessica Chastain in a true-life crime drama, he's a reliable and compassionate nurse who befriends a new colleague (Chastain).
