Ratched's Sophie Okonedo on hypnosis, rage, and playing someone with multiple personalities

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Ratched's Sophie Okonedo on hypnosis, rage, and playing someone with multiple personalities


In the new Netflix series Ratched, Sophie Okonedo is Charlotte, a young woman stricken with dissociative identity disorder, or as it was known at the time, multiple personality disorder. In her mind, when she’s not Charlotte, she’s killing Nazis, playing symphonic violin, and—spoiler alert—acting as a vengeful doctor. But how did…

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  1. when I tell u that after I seen her part…. I knew then that she possessed a irrefutably remarkable talent… IMO she should've played the red queen in wonderland….& on Brighton

  2. Her character is one very wonderful example why mental people need to be shot at the first available chance because letting these unpredictable maniacs loose is not something that should be risked.

  3. i'm sorry but i couldn't care less for how good/bad the acting was bc it was in general a very wrong representation of people with did (dissociative identity disorder) first they let the viewers believe that she developed the disorder after the trauma that happened two years ago, when she was an adult, which is not possible to happen. did is a result of severe, repetitive childhood trauma mixed with an unstable relationship to primary caregivers. it always develops during childhood. secondly it suggests (once again) that people with did are violent, uncontrollable and aggressive. which is rarely the case. most people wirh did are so used to abuse that they're much more likely to become victims again very, very rarely they become predators (but the media as in split and unfortunately ratched often tell us otherwise).
    thirdly she clearly suffers from hallucinations (baby tillie sees her mother on s chair) which is not a symptom of did – of course she could suffer from coexisting other mental illnesses but i think for someone who doesn't know anything about did it could suggest that hallucinations are a common symptom and again did and schizophrenia are getting confused. sorry for the rant but it just really bugged me to see this disorder being represented so, so wrong once again.
    especially the part where it seems like people with did are dangerous when in reality they're very hurt people who have gone through unspeakable things at a way too young age and are just in need pf safety and understanding.

  4. Sophie Okonedo is a great actress. So versatile, and just goes for it. I remember first seeing her in Aeon Flux, the scene when Charlize wraps her hands around her own hands, and she lies down.

  5. Shes an incredible actress but this is a TERRIBLE portrayal of DID and I think that's really unfortunate. She should be using her talent for something that's worth it.

  6. They compleey misrepresented DID. They don't even use the right term on this label. And she says in the first 20 se conds of this interview that she didn't really research the disorder.
    Thus show perpetuates the stigma around DID; I.e. the idea that people with DID are dangerous, scary and unhinged. This is incredibley harmful for the DID community.
    They don't properly show how DID actually affects the person. They couldn't even get how alters switch right.

  7. She was great in her role! She really got me scared whenever her other personalities flourished. They were so unpredicteble and so violent. I guess that's the messure of a good actress, to give emotions to the viewer and to make your character very believable. Great job!!