‘Five Days At Memorial’ is the new Apple TV + series, about the drama experienced by patients and health personnel in a hospital when, after Hurricane Katrina (2005), they were trapped by the waters and without electricity. The Republic spoke with some actors of the cast, about its characters and the story that directly addresses the issue of euthanasia and the difficult decisions that are made in extreme situations.
“I know that if I were old and sick, if I were not to recover and feel miserable in a bed of hospital, at a thousand degrees, I would pray that someone would give me something comfortable so I wouldn’t wake up. That’s what I would say, but you don’t know until you’re there”, reflects the actress Cherry Jones (Emmy winner for the series ’24’), about the series where she plays Susan Mulderick, the director of nursing and head of the emergency committee.
in the drama of appletv+ Based on real events, the residents of the New Orleans Memorial Hospital: doctors, nurses, patients and administrators, are isolated in the facilities without being able to leave, due to the stagnation of the waters as a result of the devastating hurricane. Thus, deprived of light and exposed to high temperatures, during the next 5 days drastic decisions of life and death begin to be made.
For actor Robert Pine, who plays Dr. Horace Baltz, getting into the skin of his character was not that complicated. “I always wanted to be a doctor, it wasn’t difficult to find out who that person was,” he says, but he acknowledges that the series assesses the importance of the decisions we make throughout our lives. “Life is made of decisions.
Sometimes we make the right decision, sometimes we make the wrong one, sometimes every choice has unbelievable ramifications, so I would hope that the audience would develop the ability to understand when you make the wrong decision and either way understand why it’s important to recognize that you’ve made a wrong decision. bad decision, I hope that the audience is able to take their lives, “he says.
For her part, the actress Adepero Oduye, who gives life to the nurse ‘Karen Wynn’, the biggest challenge of her work.
“It was the responsibility I felt to bring everything I have to this story. The body is very important to tell, and sometimes, it naturally resists going to certain places, allowing certain emotions to surface… It’s overwhelming as an actress because I’m inhabiting a character and I have to constantly calm my body to go there, because I’m here to tell a story and my responsibility is to tell it as it is: as real and honest as possible. I couldn’t turn off because these people didn’t have the luxury to turn off, so I didn’t have that privilege either.”
For Oduye, who in this series met again with director John Ridley (12 Years a Slave), the decisions made by the health personnel at the Memorial about who was saved and who were not, cannot be judged, because no one was there.
“I think that truth we will never know. I think we miss the point if we focus only on individuals, these people were left in this hospital for 5 days. All the levels and institutions that were supposed to help them did not, ”she states.
“I think there was a change in the protocols, a study where they took people who clearly were not going to survive, they were people with very serious illnesses and they saved others who had a chance and in the end, the people who thought they were going to live did not. they made. So there really isn’t just one way to judge, I think that’s what the audience is going to get, hours and hours of discussion. I have also been by the side of relatives dying and sometimes it is a hard exit, “concludes Jones.
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