There are three Rachels, and we're assuming that Patricia's part is the one called "Rachel 2" in the screenplay.
On imdb they have her listed to play
Nurse Marino. Probably a user update...
Thanks Will, we'll see.... It's better she doesn't say too much about her final part for those who don't know anything about the story, and all those "ghost-women".
More mystery from Clarkson:
Patricia Clarkson Opens Up On Scorsese’s ‘Ashecliffe.’ Well, Sort Of.
Patricia Clarkson’s role in the upcoming Martin Scorsese picture “Ashecliffe” (formerly “Shutter Island”) is epic, it’s life-changing, it’s a tour de force. And, oh yeah, it’s a complete mystery.
“I don’t want people to know who I’m playing,” the talented actress teased us when we recently caught up with her. “It’s a great character and it’s very exciting. It’s a challenging role and I’m looking forward to it.
“I’ve had a very long talk with about it,” the actress added when we pressed her for more details.
An adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel, “Shutter Island” follows U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) as he investigates the escape of a murderess from a hospital for the criminally insane.
Alongside Mark Ruffalo as Chuck Aule and Ben Kingsley as Dr. John Cawley, IMDB has Clarkson listed as playing Nurse Marino. But that can’t possibly be right given how jazzed Clarkson seemed for the role - can it? After all, Marino is a small part.
Full disclosure, I haven’t read the book (although I did just read the last five pages on Google Books. SNAP!) Maybe somebody who has can make heads or tails of what Clarkson said of her conversations with Scorsese:
“We discussed how she is emotionally and physically challenged. She’s been through a lot,” Clarkson said of her mystery character. “There’s twists and turns and surprises with this character and I think that she has a lot at stake. She’s a very intelligent woman but she’s very compromised when you meet her.”
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Thanks Will
The plot thickens. I don't see her as Nurse Marino she seems too old and the woman in the cave is a very small part in the book so........................ :?
I've just reread the part of the woman in the cave and it's actually not that small. Also it's a very important part, since she explains everything that's going on on the island.
It is indeed an important part, because at the time she appears in the film the audience is still on the same path as Teddy, so the revelations she brings are very crucial. It's pretty clear from what she says here again that she's playing the woman in the cave. Physically challenged and compromised means she's not real.
Patricia Clarkson:"In Shutter Island, I don’t have any scenes with her. I only have scenes with Leonardo."
If I recall Teddy is the only one who interacts with the woman in the cave so...
I've just reread the part of the woman in the cave and it's actually not that small.
Good point Joke & Will. I was thinking....she's only in one scene! But then that scene is crucial so the part is too. :roll:
Will
Thanks for very interesting interview with Clarkson :)
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1130884/
It looks like they took Patricia Clarkson's name off the cast list...
And per article below we know Nellie S will be Nurse Marino
It’s no secret that director Martin Scorsese has a thing for working with box office biggie Leonardo DiCaprio. And who wouldn’t?
Leo is in town filming “Ashecliffe,” his fourth flick with Marty. Hot on his heels is another Scorsese fave, Nellie Sciutto, who’s shooting her third (and a half) Scorsese role.
“I like to think it’s not a bad place to be,” laughed the actress, who we last saw on the big screen batting her eyes at hunky Matt Damon in “The Departed.”
Nellie also appeared in the Scorsese-directed “The Key to Reserva,” a short flick/ad for Freixenet champagne (that’s the half), and “The Aviator,” another Leo-Marty collaboration.
“Leo is the best-looking character actor of our time,” said Sciutto, who is a big fan of her leading man. “He’s been acting for so long that he appears wise beyond his years. And he’s always been very kind to me.”
Always a plus!
Nellie, who was cast as Martin Sheen’s secretary in “The Departed,” Scorsese’s Oscar-winning Boston Irish mob flick, said she was disappointed that her Gal Friday role was pared down in the final cut.
But in “Ashecliffe,” her Nurse Marino plays a pivotal role in the plot. So chances are, Nellie will survive the cutting room floor!
In the flick, based on Boston man of mystery Dennis Lehane’s “Shutter Island,” Marino is “the overseer of all the crazies” at the mental hospital where a murderess, played by Emily Mortimer has escaped. She’s hunted down by a pair of U.S. marshals played by DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo.
“Nurse Marino is sort of a kinder, gentler Nurse Ratched who is kind of sexy in a weird way,” said Sciutto, referring to Louise Fletcher’s Oscar-winning role in the 1975 blockbuster “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
“In the 1950s - I did some research - the nurses ran the psychiatric wards, ran the group therapy sessions and ran the patients’ care,” she said. “The doctors would come by every couple of weeks and prescribe the medications. It was the nurses who did everything else.”
Nellie is filming most of her 11 scenes at Medfield State Hospital with DiCaprio, Ruffalo, Sir Ben Kingsley and Williams. She’ll be here in town until June, she told the Track.
And although her character is sort of creepy, Sciutto said she’s got a fabulous nurse’s uniform designed for her by Scorsese’s costumer, Sandy Powell.
“It’s actually quite beautiful, ethereal almost,” she said. “It’s high-waisted and lower-cut than usual - the total opposite of that stiff polyester uniform you associate with nurses.”
The only trouble Nellie had with the costume, besides someone telling her that red nail polish on a RN’s hands was a no-no, was the nurse’s cap.
Scorsese, who likes to see photos of his characters in full costume before shooting, sent Nellie back a few times because he didn’t like the way the cap sat on her head.
“I have a really small head,” chuckled the former Elite Petite model. “I mean, I’m not stupid or anything, I just have a tiny head. So they had to have a little nurse’s cap made for me. It’s about one-sixth of the size it should be!”
