Jessica Chastain Joins Netflix's 'The Retrievals' — SkimNews
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- Jessica Chastain closed a deal to join Netflix's The Retrievals as Kaitlyn Langford, a former art historian stuck in a decade-long cycle of failed fertility treatments who becomes a key plaintiff in a historic lawsuit against Yale.
- The series is inspired by Susan Burton's Peabody Award-winning New York Times podcast, chronicling an unlikely community of IVF patients who underwent egg-retrieval surgery without anesthesia after a Yale Fertility Center nurse stole their fentanyl.
- Amy Ryan plays Carla Russo, the veteran Yale Fertility Center nurse who pled guilty to diverting vast amounts of fentanyl and diluting it with saline; Emilia Jones plays Gabby Clemente, another victim and co-plaintiff alongside Chastain's character.
- Molly Smith Metzler (Sirens, Maid) serves as showrunner, writer, and executive producer, with LuckyChap's Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, and Dani Gorin executive producing alongside podcast writer Burton, while Maid and Sirens alum Lila Neugebauer directs the pilot.
- The project reunites Metzler and EP Colin McKenna with Netflix and LuckyChap following the WGA Award-winning Maid and the multiple Emmy-nominated Sirens.
- Chastain's upcoming slate also includes the Universal horror Other Mommy (out October 9) with Jay Duplass, Netflix thriller Heartland (November 13), and Apple series Off Weeks with Ben Stiller and The Dealer with Adam Driver.
Why it matters: The Retrievals stems from a podcast that already earned Peabody recognition for exposing a real medical scandal, giving Netflix a built-in prestige narrative ahead of its launch. Reuniting the Maid/Sirens creative team with LuckyChap and adding an Oscar winner to a previously announced Jones-Ryan pairing signals a deliberate awards-season push.
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