Liev Schreiber has admitted he wasn’t initially utterly bought on the concept of showing in The Good Couple.
The nine-time Emmy nominee joins an all-star forged together with Nicole Kidman, Meghann Fahy, Dakota Fanning and Jack Reynor in Netflix’s new homicide thriller, primarily based on the e-book by Elin Hilderbrand.
Because it started streaming final week, The Good Couple hasn’t budged from the highest spot on Netflix’s most-watched TV reveals listing, however Liev has revealed there was a degree he won’t have been within the present in any respect.
And no, it’s in all probability not for the rationale you’re considering.
“I had my doubts to start with,” he advised TheWrap. “You understand, the character’s such a douche. I used to be like, ‘Do I actually wish to do that?’.”
In the long run, Liev was satisfied by the chance to work with Nicole, in addition to director Susanne Bier.
“[Susanne] actually opened it up and mentioned there could be improv [and] we’d be capable of discover the kind of comedian components of it and the duality and the fullness of it, and it simply seemed like it will be actually enjoyable,” he added.
“I’m thrilled with the way it turned out for probably the most half.”
A lot has already been made of 1 facet of The Good Couple – its sudden group dance sequence that includes your entire forged, which seems over the opening titles of each episode.
Whereas a number of forged members tried to place collectively a “munity” to stop the sequence from taking place, Liev actually wasn’t certainly one of them.
“I wasn’t in that [conversation],” Liev mentioned final week. “Your entire forged had a mutiny about this concept apart from me, I used to be already in my trailer practising the dance strikes.
“I identical 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 very well.”
The Good Couple is on the market to stream now on Netflix.
