Yes, none of the cast wanted to do the fun, cute group dance number in the intro of The Perfect Couple. Were they born in Bomont? Director Susanne Bier told Vulture at the series premiere in Hollywood on Wednesday that she basically had to convince everyone to dance: “I wanted to do [the dance]. It was my idea and I was pushing for it. We sent [the cast] the video of the dance, and they were like ‘We’re not doing it, we’re not doing it, it’s too tricky.’” As for the choice to use Meghan Trainor’s “Criminal”? Bier straight up just loved the song and thought it was a perfect fit. “The fact that she’s just singing about criminals just worked for this.”
Later, the cast added more clarity as to why they didn’t want to dance. Meghann Fahy told Variety that she has issues learning choreography, and the team went as far as making a Whats App group chat to organize against the idea: “Everyone was on that group saying they didn’t want to do this because we just didn’t understand.” Kidman admitted that she thought her character, famous and mysterious author Greer Winbury, wouldn’t bust a move at her own son’s wedding: “Because I didn’t feel like Greer would dance! I felt like Greer would watch. But I danced as Greer. I think it’s great and I’m so glad they got us all to do it. ‘Cause there’s some joy in it.”
There was one brave cast member who bopped to his own beat, and that man was Liev Schrieber. He explained how he was already “practicing the dance moves” while everyone else was trying to delay the dance as much as possible. However, he wished he could’ve been featured just a tad bit more, telling Variety, “I just like dancing and I was kinda disappointed when it came out that I’m not in it more because I thought I did it really well.”
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