'The Perfect Couple' Cast Created A Whatsapp Group Because They Hated This Specific Scene
The cast of Netflix's The Perfect Couple has revealed that they created a WhatsApp group chat to try and stop a specific scene from happening.
The six-part murder mystery series follows the aftermath of a dead body being found on the property of the Windbury's, a wealthy family who live in the moneyed enclave of Nantucket. The shock death results in a whodunnit, which disrupts a family wedding that's supposed to take place the next day.
The opening credits of the show sees the cast, which includes Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber and Dakota Fanning, dancing together to Meghan Trainor's single 'Criminals' the day before the wedding, and hours before the murder happens.
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While all of the characters can be seen dancing joyfully in unison – the total opposite of the dynamics that are portrayed throughout the show – the cast weren't happy about having to learn the dance routine and created a WhatsApp group to try and stop it from happening.
During the Los Angeles premiere of the show, The White Lotus' Meghann Fahy and other cast members expressed their dismay towards the routing, with the actor saying, 'Everyone was on that group saying they didn’t want to do this because we just didn’t understand.'
'I actually have a really, really huge issue with learning choreography so I was very nervous about it,' she added.
Kidman also revealed that she was initially against the idea of the opening scene and had also joined the WhatsApp group. 'Because I didn’t feel like Greer would dance! I felt like Greer would watch,' she stated, before adding that she eventually came around to the idea. 'But I danced as Greer. I think it’s great and I’m so glad they got us all to do it. Because there’s some joy in it.'
Schreiber admitted that he was the only one to be onboard with the idea from the beginning. 'I wasn’t in that [WhatsApp] chain,' he recalled. 'The entire cast had a mutiny about this idea except for me, I was already in my trailer practicing the dance moves. I just, like, dancing, and I was kind of disappointed when it came out that I’m not in it more because I thought I did it really well.'
While the cast may have had their reservations about the choreographed scene, everyone was happy with the final outcome, stated Fahy: 'The God’s honest truth is that at the end of the day, we were very, very joyful about it. We all sort of ended up giving in to it. It was so fun and I actually weirdly think it’s amazing.'
During an interview with Variety, the show's director Susanne Bier discussed why she decided to include the upbeat routine into the dark murder mystery.
'I think I felt that I want to do something where we are telling the audience, ‘This is going to be fun. I feel this time [period] is a little bit gloomy and I felt I wanted to do something which had a lot of life and a lot of fun. And I wanted to see all the characters having fun.'
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