If the trailer for Ryan Murphy‘s latest Netflix production, Ratched, had you folding a blanket over your eyes, it’s understandable.
The new thriller, which premieres Friday, Sept. 18, tells the story of wicked Nurse Ratched, originally played by Louise Fletcher in 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (and the novel of the same name). For this eight-episode run, Sarah Paulson steps into the titular role stylishly and, because it’s Paulson, with bravado.
But it’s not the jump-out-of-your seat carnage that has her apprehensive about the series. Instead, she’s nervous for fan reactions since she took a risk and slipped on her executive producer shoes.
“I feel terrified,” she tells E! News in an exclusive interview. “Any time you are a creative person or endeavoring to do something creative, you are vulnerable to people and their keyboards and their opinions. And we live in a world now of people really liking to liter the internet with their thoughts and opinions.”