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Netflix’s new sequence The Good Couple is a darkish story certainly, however its title sequence sees its solid, together with Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber and Dakota Fanning, in a flash mob-style dance, set to Meghan Trainor‘s “Criminals.”
It was the brainchild of director Susanne Bier, however Selection has found that a lot of the solid was so against it they began a textual content chain on WhatsApp that Schreiber known as a “mutiny.”
The present facilities on a rich household whose plans for a glamorous Nantucket marriage ceremony by the seaside runs aground when a physique washes up onshore, exposing the fam’s darkish secrets and techniques.
Kidman admitted to the commerce that she was initially against the opening, as a result of she didn’t suppose her matriarch character Greer would dance. “I felt like Greer would watch.”
That stated, she was completely satisfied about it ultimately. “I danced as Greer. I feel it’s nice and I’m so glad they acquired us all to do it. ‘Trigger there’s some pleasure in it.”
Schreiber, who performs Kidman’s husband, was all in. “I wasn’t in that [text] chain. The complete solid had a mutiny about this concept apart from me, I used to be already in my trailer training the dance strikes.”
He added, “I similar to dancing and I used to be kinda dissatisfied when it got here out that I’m not in it extra as a result of I believed I did it rather well.”
Bier defined she felt viewers wanted a pick-me-up from the “gloomy” instances we’re dwelling in. “I felt I needed to do one thing which had lots of life and lots of enjoyable. And I needed to see all of the characters having enjoyable.”
The Good Couple is now streaming on Netflix.
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