The director of The Perfect Couple has opened up about this new film (Picture: HILARY BRONWYN GAYLE/NETFLIX)
The director of Netflix’s latest psychological drama The Perfect Couple has spoken about filming some of the more ‘uncomfortable’ scenes with Nicole Kidman, as she unpacks this gripping series.
Susanne Bier, 64, is a Danish filmmaker responsible for series including The Night Manager, The Undoing, and Netflix’s Bird Box starring Sandra Bullock.
The director has now teamed up with an all-star cast for The Perfect Couple which includes the likes of Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Dakota Fanning, Jack Reynor, Meghann Fahy, and Eve Hewson.
The six-part thriller is set in Nantucket and focuses on some of the island’s wealthiest residents, the Winbury family who are left in crisis after the ‘accidental’ drowning of a key character on the eve of their son’s wedding.
The six episodes explore the different family members – who all seem as guilty as the next – and as the mystery unfolds, affairs, grudges, and dirty secrets come to light.
Sitting down to chat with Metro.co.uk, the director of the series Susanne Bier, spoke about some of the more ‘uncomfortable’ sex scenes to film.
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Although characters Greer (Kidman) and Tag (Schreiber) show off their ideal marriage and boast about their active sex life after decades together, all is not as it seems.
In one episode the characters engage in a rather tense sexual encounter that begins after Greer repeatedly tells her husband not to touch her. She then succumbs and they have sex fully clothed against a window.
Explaining the significance of this scene, Bier explained that it was deliberately ‘uncomfortable’.
‘It’s sort of a little bit of an uncomfortable sex scene in there. It doesn’t feel entirely mutual in a way.
‘It was a way of describing the emotional thing that was going on between the two of them, as opposed to just describing the physical.
‘But also, it was very conscious. We understand exactly what’s going on, but we are still keeping certain things literally on the ropes,’ she said describing the character’s position with her back to her husband and her body pressed against a window.
The Perfect Couple is one of the Danish director’s many exciting projects (Picture: Dave Benett)
This isn’t the first time that Susanne has worked with Nicole, after previously directing her in HBO’s The Undoing, a psychological thriller series also starring Hugh Grant.
Commenting on working with Nicole again, the director joked: ‘I mean, she’s like, she’s like a creature from outer space, like, she’s kind of like, you know, she kind of has no fear.’
‘She really just throws herself at things. As a director, it’s an amazing gift, because you’ve got this, beautiful being jumping up from the 10th floor and you just want to make sure that she lands in a gracious way, and she does.
‘But it’s a, it’s, it’s a very amazing ability, being …read more
Source:: Metro
