The Nicole Kidman whodunnit opens with a dance so cringe-making its stars tried to stop it – and it’s now gone viral. But it’s not the first hit show with an awful opening sequence …
Anyone who has binged The Perfect Couple – Nicole Kidman’s glossy whodunnit, which is Netflix’s most watched show so far this month – will have many questions. Would you not cancel a book launch days after a murder outside your mansion? Why does Kidman’s brother have a cockney accent? Was it meant to be so ludicrously funny? And the one that’s really making us twitch: what the hell are those opening credits?
The stars perform a flashmob-style dance to Meghan Trainor’s Criminal; awkwardly smiling, spinning and clapping on a beach to on-the-nose lyrics for 32 seconds. Director Susanne Bier insisted on the Saturday Night Fever-inspired number: “I wanted to see all the characters having fun!” No class of acting, though, can hide the cringe eating up each actor. In fact, the cast have revealed to Variety that they set up a WhatsApp group to try to veto it.
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