Perfect Couple on Netflix: This is the sequence everyone’s talking about, but the actors didn’t want to do it

It’s Netflix’s #1 series of the moment: The Perfect Couple is a hit on the platform. This highly addictive fiction between White Lotus and Big Little Lies is created by Jenna Lamia (90210: The Next Generation of Beverly Hills, Good Girls) and directed by Susan Bier (Birdbox, The Undoing).

The 6-episode mini-series “The Perfect Couple” is a dramatic and cynical thriller that immerses us in the ruthless world of a rich family affected by murder, which will upset their balance and reveal their dark secrets.

The Perfect Couple follows how Amelia and Benjy’s lavish wedding ends in disaster before it even begins when the body of Amelia’s best friend Merritt is found in Nantucket Harbor just hours before the ceremony. All the guests and the Winbury family are suddenly suspicious.

The series is supported by a high-profile cast, including Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Dakota Fanning (Ripley), Megan Fahy (White Lotus), Eva Hewson (My Friend Adele), Jack Raynor (Midsomary), Donna Lynn Champlin (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend ), Sam Nivola (White Lotus, Maestro), Billy Howl (Snake) as well as French actress Isabelle Ajan.

Subscribers are obsessed with the “A Perfect Couple” theme song

We can say that the series The Perfect Couple on Netflix is ​​off to a great start, as during the first days of broadcasting on the platform, 103.5 million hours were recorded, which corresponds to 20.3 million full views of this fiction, which is very fast. has grown #1 in Top Netflix.

If the intrigue, twists and comic tone of the series have appealed to the public, it is also the special aspect of the ideal couple that Netflix subscribers are obsessed with. The perfect couple has a special title track that lasts about thirty seconds, in which the actress dances to the music of “Criminals” by Meghan Trainor.

“I’m totally obsessed with the A Perfect Couple song.”

“Every shot in the Perfect Couple credits is perfect.”

And we can say that the surprising sequence, as indicated by the tone of the series, remains in mind. Internet users did not hesitate to share it on social networks.

The actors really didn’t want to do this sequence

If these credits create a buzz on social media and among Netflix subscribers, this sequence might not exist. Because the actors were surprised by this request from the director Susan Bier to learn the imaginary dance of LaDonna, a choreographer who works especially with Meghan Trainor.

“At the end of filming, we got a surprise email from a director we adore and would do so much for, asking us to learn choreography”– Eva Hewson explained The Jimmy Fallon Show, “And then the Whatsapp chat group between the actors got heated. They were saying ‘I’m not going to do it’, ‘I’m going to call my agent’, ‘I’m going to call my manager’, ‘They have to pay me to do it.’

Only Liev Schreiber was completely involved from the beginning, as he said Diversity : “I wasn’t in the Whatsapp group. The whole troupe was up in arms about the idea, except for me. I was already practicing my dance moves in my trailer. I was just dancing and I was a little disappointed when I saw that I wasn’t” There wasn’t more to the sequence because I thought that I did it very well.”

In the end, the whole cast participated in the exercise with joy and good humor, and all the actors are happy with the result and the mysterious and heady energy that this now very popular theme brings to the series A Perfect Couple.

But the sequence never actually made it, as it originally appeared in the series, as explained by screenwriter Jenna Lamia. transfer : “It was supposed to be a dream sequence that opened one of the episodes. But when Suzanne saw how fluid the actors’ movements were and how fun it was going to be, we realized it would work incredibly well as the opening credits.”

The mini-series “The Perfect Couple” is available on Netflix.