Mimi Sarkisian Interview: Episode 1 (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Nurse Pilbow, Jack Nicholson)

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Жыл бұрын

The Burbank International Film Festival's interview series, Reel Conversations, finishes it's 2022 run with our last guest, Mimi Sarkisian.
In episode one, Mimi talks about what it was like playing Nurse Pilbow in the classic film, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, with Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher and director Miloš Forman.
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@shabadoo24 Жыл бұрын

She's still beautiful

@YoshLovesYou Жыл бұрын

I always wondered who the cute nurse was.

@frankthespank Жыл бұрын

Me too 🤓

@Mf_booma Жыл бұрын

Cute ???????

@haveatyou1 Жыл бұрын

@@Mf_booma 😍

@webbstrong472 Жыл бұрын

@@Mf_booma yeah she was cute.

@peterlfc1387 Жыл бұрын

@@Mf_boomaare you bent?

@jondstewart Жыл бұрын

Nurse Pilbow was an enigma. A nice and pleasant young lady, but with no personality and easily startled. Yet a beautiful, likable Armenian American actress with almost no other credits plays her. Fascinating!

@richp5321 Жыл бұрын

Her quiet demeanor and straight faced silence in some of those scenes was quite dramatic

@aliensoup2420 Жыл бұрын

In some respect, she is the most mysterious character in the movie. You know she must have a strong feeling about her environment and her role within it, but she does not betray it. During the group sessions when McMurphy is making sarcastic and suggestive remarks, it is tempting to believe it is affecting her, by the look in her eyes. Because of her youth, we know she isn't a zombie, and there must be something going on in her brain, but we never discover it.

@derekrichards9418 Жыл бұрын

My goodness she’s absolutely gorgeous looking both here and of course the film 🔥♥️😍

@SunBunz Жыл бұрын

Cuckoo's Nest is free on KZfaq. I was just thinking about how cute the actress who plays Nurse Pilbow was. lol She is a lovely woman, now! May Louise Fletcher rest in peace.

@EmptyGlass99 Жыл бұрын

Her wide-eyed wonder and fear are perfect, she reflects what the audience is feeling.

@thecaptainnoah Жыл бұрын

She’s so pretty

@MrMittens1974 Жыл бұрын

She looked very much like Mila Kunis when she was younger. Great interview thanks.

@OttoByOgraffey Ай бұрын

You mean Mila Kunis looks like her.

@marc196050 Жыл бұрын

Although not a big role as a side kick, she had a presence that was noticeable. Maybe it’s the cute quiet girl that everyone boy had a crush on in school.

@Cyba_IT Жыл бұрын

We studied OFOTCN in school when I was about 13 or 14 and she just seemed like a regular but kind of shy nurse. I didn't realise how cute she was until now. She had a real innocence that juxtaposed Ratched's evil nature. Mimi seems like a lovely lady and it's a shame she hasn't been in more productions. I hope she is happy and well. :)

@stevenguegens9516 Жыл бұрын

I really liked nurse pilbo in one who flew over the cuckoo's nest and even NOW she's still the looks especialy with her pretty smile 💯 percent 👍😍

@ginfrench3350 Жыл бұрын

My close friend Will Sampson (who played Chief) was also a first time actor and couldn't say enough about how nice and supportive everyone was. He also told me stories about how Jack Nicholson would crack everyone up between scenes...which seemed to help the actors deal with all the heavy emotional parts of the film.

@Badkittys4 Жыл бұрын

Will Sampson was my absolute favorite character, I was in love with him

@TheeRogerWayne Жыл бұрын

Will is an amazing man Gin. I’m an actor myself in NYC, have guest star on a new show coming out for Showtime. If I could ever have the chance to speak with him would be awesome. I’d love a picture with him.

@ginfrench3350 Жыл бұрын

@@TheeRogerWayne He was the best person I've ever known. I made a memorial video of him that has some of his childhood pictures in it..."Remembering Will Sonny Sampson Jr." I have pictures of he & I together but would never post them for the whole world to see...they are my personal memories.

@philipchurchill6508 Жыл бұрын

@@TheeRogerWayne Roger ? I`m sorry to say fella he has been dead for decades , sorry to have to tell you , especially you being an actor and all .

@joeferguson2606 Жыл бұрын

people will believe anything.

@TheKitchenerLeslie Жыл бұрын

The way this was shot, most of the actors didn't know the camera was rolling, and it really shows. It adds to the realism.

@TTM9691 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this wonderful interview! I was watching "Cuckoo's Nest" yesterday and as I was watching it I was thinking how I had never seen an interview with Nurse Pilbow. One day later, this popped up as a recommendation! How cool is that? Going to part 2 now. Thanks!

@513Lindaddy Жыл бұрын

She's so cute.

@timlamb6196 Жыл бұрын

I always thought she was beautiful.

@andrewjames09123 Жыл бұрын

Ya she was cute wasn't she

@soilmanted Жыл бұрын

Mimi Sarkisian was just wonderful in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. She didn't have a lot of lines to speak but her facial expressions and her bodily positions spoke volumes. Especially wonderful was following her eyes as her eyes followed the things that were going on. The scene where she walks into the nurse's station and McMurphy has managed to get himself in there and Nurse Pilbow screams. So many emotions going on at the same time. The scene was hilarious in a frightening way, or frightening in a hilarious way. One of those. I couldn't keep my eyes off of Nurse Pilbow, even when she had little or nothing to say, watching her actions was spell-binding.

@Ah_i_love_the_comments_section Жыл бұрын

After watching the movie many times, I am watching it right now once again and paused the movie out of curiosity to see who this beautiful women is. I'm glad she's happy and well, she's part of a masterpiece that I'll show to my kids when I'm older ❤ It's just kinda sad she didn't go a path of taking part in more movies, but I guess she did what she understood what's best for her and her family. And after all, fame is a coin with two sides, sometimes one of the sides of the coin is just something that someone is not willing to face, so I respect that, everything has a cost (specially fame). It's unlikely she'll ever read this, but congratulations for the great performance in one of my favourite movies ever ❤

@richardtaylor9418 Жыл бұрын

Quite simply, the best movie ever made.

@Jdeneik 9 ай бұрын

One of the Movie greats! Great interview!

@JuandeFucaU Жыл бұрын

I remember she also played a nurse in The Right Stuff..... what I didn't know was that is her only other film credit..... what a shame..... I'd pay to see her again any day.

@edfelstein3891 Жыл бұрын

I saw The Right Stuff back in '83 and remembered thinking that the nurse who calls Cooper, Grissom and Slayton into the testing room looked a lot like that cute nurse from Cuckoo's Nest. Well, whadyaknow!

@phil9256 9 ай бұрын

This is fantastic. One of my favorite movies. Didn't expect to see this interview. Awesome!

@kurtneumann3164 Жыл бұрын

Was 15 when this came out. I fell in love with her instantly. Hotti. She still is!

@bigroy38 7 ай бұрын

Still beautiful!

@screenwriterabdullahh.erak2778 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for interviewing her. This is a treasure of a video.

@Januaryfriend Жыл бұрын

This is such a wonderful interview. I enjoyed every minute of it!

@ravensbrood3544 Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised Mac didnt try to grab a hold of that cutie.🤔

@aliensoup2420 Жыл бұрын

He was smart enough to know that would have been a life sentence for him. He did make a suggestive flirtation when he make the remark about being slipped salt-peter in his pills, then he thumped the wall in front of her. I think her character was affected by McMurphy's sexuality.

@whamsie4022 Жыл бұрын

She’s too old for him.

@SomethingSomethingg Жыл бұрын

What a great find!!! Thank you!

@SomethingSomethingg Жыл бұрын

Pilbow is an amazing example of saying so much without saying much of anything. Even just looking at pictures of her I can instantly see a young, wide-eyed naive Catholic girl who's shy and easily startled and is trying to prove herself as a nurse. She looks up to Fletcher (quite literally given her short stature) and is so brainwashed by the medical field that she's doing the right thing she never questions the evilness. Because of her obvious fragility, I would have loved to have seen what happened to her after she faints at the end. Is the suicide and the blood too traumatizing for her? Or does she stay on?

@andreschusan6086 Жыл бұрын

I loved her in OFOTCN and adore her today. Peace , love, happiness and much respect, me-lady. Interview was, solid... atta boy!

@edwinthompson159 Жыл бұрын

Interesting - I atched the movie this week and was wondering about who played this part, and then found this interview. Very nice.

@natalinaconidi6313 Жыл бұрын

'Medicine Mr. Mc Murphy!' Iconic

@NoirL.A. 11 ай бұрын

quite interesting i adore this movie but in the end it just goes to show talent or not it all comes down to opportunities and being in the right place at the right time.

@nickeypetersen5622 Жыл бұрын

Missing mister tickle after so many years. Found out he was primarily a musician. But in various movies, he was funny... Poor guy in this movie. He was so nice... Also searching a older American native from previously, who also was funny and nice in some movies. Just don't have his name to search on. He occured in some western movies... But this one here is still the best and only after almost 50 years. Dear film makers, shame on you not to bring something up to this quality ever since.

@joeferguson2606 Жыл бұрын

whataver "it" is, she had lots of it

@markhuismann9721 Жыл бұрын

I met Devito around 2006.

@ragen4504 Жыл бұрын

What was he like?

@kenotube3160 Жыл бұрын

She interviews really well. That was interesting to watch.

@darrellpasion8925 Жыл бұрын

I always wondered what happened to her.

@sdkelmaruecan2907 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if her casting as a nurse in "The Rught Stuff" was a nod to "One Flew" or just a coincidence? At some point I thought she was a real nurse.

@keyboardwarria 5 ай бұрын

she was SO FINE with those white, almost translucent stockings in the movie. She's still beautiful

@neaituppi7306 Жыл бұрын

That is what I didn't like about the theater, when I was part of a theater group. Now they would probably use body mics. But that you have to yell everything, which they call projecting.

@Gerard_2024 Жыл бұрын

When I saw the film she was called "Nurse Ratched".

@Cyba_IT Жыл бұрын

Nurse Ratched was the head nurse in the movie played by Louise Fletcher (RIP). This is Mimi Sarkisian who played Nurse Ratched's assistant, Nurse Pilbow, in the movie.