How Louise Fletcher Played Nurse Ratched?

In 1975, Louise Fletcher stunned as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

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In an interview, Fletcher revealed how she approached Nurse Ratched’s character.

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Fletcher’s version of Ratched is 40-years-old virgin who had sacrificed her life for other people.

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Foreman wasn’t sure about the casting of Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched.

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In the Ken Kesey’s novel, Nurse Ratched is a very large and formidably evil woman, almost non-human.

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Louise Fletcher won Academy Award for leading role in “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”.

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