WARNING: This article contains spoilers aboutRatched.
Nurse Ratched is in good condition.
Worldwide, its the No.
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1 show," star Cynthia Nixon marvels about the popularity of the 8-episode first season.
So thats a first for me!"
Nixon had just ended one of her own whenRatchedcame her way.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: This character goes on a bit of a rollercoaster ride.
How much did you know about her arc before you even got scripts?
I knew there was going to be a lot of drama.
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But I was actually only hired for a year because they were supposed to kill me at the end.
Well, that has not happened.
They shot me and they gave me cancer but I’m still walking around!
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[Laughs]
Do you know what changed and why they kept Gwendolyn around?
And I think they were going to killFinn Wittrock.
I think they decided they liked having us around.
So I think Ryan Murphy is very aware of that trope and wanted to offer people something else.
I often play people who are darker and more divided against themselves, and sometimes their own worst enemy.
She wants to find love with another woman and in a lasting way.
Is that interesting enough, you know?
I usually play people with a lot more locked rooms and hidden wings.
Even just doing it was major.
That was really great.
There wasn’t even going to be an onscreen kiss.
We were like, we’ve got to have some physical component to this.
Thats pure Ryan and that was great!
But I have to imagine there were some laughs filming that scene.
The whole thing is a little ripe.
It’s like, Im coming on to one of my good friends now.
Its a little strange.
But it is a trope.
Hmmm… [long pause] I think they might.
They have such a different sensibility.
The 1940s propriety is so important.
Gwendolyn has pretty great, impeccable manners…Miranda really doesnt.
[Laughs] I think they would.
I think Miranda would admire Gwendolyn.
