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A sequel to the hit Showtime medical drama, Nurse Jackie, was commissioned into development last year alongside fellow Showtime success, Weeds. Whereas we’re nonetheless a methods away earlier than the blonde pixie cut-loving nurse can return to our screens, the present’s star Edie Falco, who will return for the sequel, lately weighed in on why now could be the right time to convey again the present a couple of decade later. Falco is at present the one star from the sequence hooked up to the sequel the place she is going to equally perform behind the scenes as an govt producer.
Because the curtains got here down on Nurse Jackie in 2015, in what was a shocking finale, Falco has remained booked and busy. She lately appeared within the long-awaited Avatar sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water (together with her character Basic Frances Ardmore set to seem within the subsequent movie, Avatar: Fire and Ash), in addition to a handful of TV reveals together with Regulation & Order True Crime, Tommy, and Bupkis. She’s going to subsequent be seen within the indie comedy, I am going to Be Proper There, coming to theaters this fall. The Emmy-winning actress lately sat down for an interview with Screen Rant to debate the upcoming film, the place she equally spared some ideas relating to the sequel sequence. Falco defined the pertinence of Nurse Jackie’s story as regards to the deepening psychological well being and dependancy disaster that continues to plague America. Highlighting the significance of using leisure to create consciousness of the hazards of drug abuse, she mentioned:
“Oh, gosh, I really feel like I ought to have a extra pertinent reply for that. [Chuckles] I feel we’re in peril, as a tradition. Persons are largely sad, there’s a number of psychological well being points going round proper now, and using medication is an ever current subject. I do not suppose there’s ever not a proper time to be speaking about it. It is actual, and it is harmful, and it is heartbreaking. And I feel Nurse Jackie did a good quantity of exploration of all that stuff, and I am hoping that that is what’s going to, a minimum of partially, proceed. It is in lots of people’s lives, and I feel they in all probability need — a minimum of, from the feedback I’ve heard, they’re discovering some consolation in seeing it portrayed out in entrance of them, to understand they are not the one ones going by means of no matter hell it’s they are going by means of in regard to opioids and the like.”
‘Nurse Jackie’ Was Acclaimed For Its Portrayal of Habit
Nurse Jackie adopted Jackie Peyton (Falco) an emergency division nurse at All Saints’ Hospital who herself was consistently liable to needing emergency care resulting from her incessant abuse of medicine. The consequences of Jackie’s drug downside were apparent in her personal life which received more and more difficult because the present progressed. The present was a rankings and important hit for Showtime, airing for 7 Seasons between 2009 and 2015.
Nurse Jackie obtained a whopping 24 Primetime Emmy Award nominations with 6 of these going to Falco for Excellent Lead Actress in a Comedy Sequence. She received the tightly-contested class in 2010. The season 7 finale ended with Jackie collapsing on the hospital flooring after overdosing on heroin. The sequel headed for Prime Video will choose up 10 years after that near-death expertise, following Jackie within the current time as she is coping with the results of her actions, together with shedding her nursing license. Keep tuned to Collider for extra.
