Irish humour helped Jack Reynor bond with Nicole Kidman

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The cast of the new murder mystery thriller ‘The Perfect Couple’ arrived at the BFI IMAX in London for the UK Premiere of their new Netflix show. Irish actor Jack Reynor stars alongside Eve Hewson, Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber in the six-part series which sees a dream wedding take a horrific turn.     ‘The Perfect Couple’ launches on Netflix on 5th September, 2024. Report by Burtonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00In any project, any TV show, any film, the villains always have the best lines, don't they?

00:04And you have some crackers in here, don't you?

00:06I have some crackers.

00:07Do you have, without giving too much away, do you have a favourite memorable quote from your character?

00:12There's one line that's particularly caustic, where he says,

00:16Well, at least my wife matches the wallpaper.

00:20And that was, that's raw.

00:22That's a harsh, harsh line.

00:25How was your summit in Cape Cod filming this?

00:28Because, you know, there are worse places to have a job, obviously.

00:31However, you know, you have to go through the ringer.

00:33It's work still, but how was your time in Cape Cod?

00:35We had a blast, yeah.

00:36I mean, it was kind of the off-season when we arrived out there.

00:39But we all had our own little houses.

00:43And, you know, we would hang out in the weekends.

00:46We'd barbecue.

00:47We'd light a fire pit and drink a couple of beers together.

00:49And we went whale watching a bunch of times.

00:52It was amazing.

00:54It was like, it was like a working holiday.

00:56It was not like you had to wake up every morning and remind yourself.

00:59It's not always like this.

01:01This is a particularly nice one.

01:03After watching you in The Perfect Couple,

01:05I'm a little bit jarred to hear your Irish accent right now.

01:07Right.

01:08Do you have a phrase or a word which lets you into it,

01:11or is it something that you can just switch on?

01:14I think I kind of switch it on.

01:17Yeah, particularly when you're shooting in the States,

01:20everybody around you, it's their natural dialect.

01:23So you just kind of get into your ear, you know.

01:26I really watched your character as well.

01:28And I loved the way you addressed him,

01:29because it really did look like finance bro-y.

01:31Did you enjoy it?

01:32Did that really help you get into the character with your polos?

01:34Absolutely.

01:35Absolutely.

01:36Yeah, it was my head uniform.

01:38Yeah.

01:39Obviously, your on-screen parents are Leigh-Abe and Nicole Kidman,

01:42a fantastic pairing.

01:43How did you find the experience of working with them both?

01:45Did you have any preconceptions about what they might like to be,

01:47what they might like you to work with?

01:49And how did they surprise you, I guess?

01:52I wouldn't say I was surprised by them.

01:54I expected them both to be at the top of their game,

01:58which they both are.

01:59They're both brilliant actors.

02:03Nicole is very funny.

02:05She's got a really dry sense of humor.

02:07And it's something that, as an Irish person,

02:10I really recognize, you know.

02:12So in between our setups, I had really good laughs with her.

02:18Similarly with Leigh-Abe, he's just hilarious.

02:21He's such good crack.

02:23So, yeah, I had a great time with both of them.

02:28Some of those scenes that we all shot together were so much fun to do.

02:31It was just great.

02:32Ultimately, audiences are going to watch a murder mystery like this

02:35and have all these guesses about whodunit and everything.

02:38Were you correct when you first started to make your guesses of whodunit?

02:42I never even guessed.

02:43I burned through the script so quickly that I didn't even bother

02:46to try and figure out who did it.

02:48I was just chewing up the whole thing.

02:51But I was slightly taken aback at the end

02:56by who it does turn out to be.

02:58That's a good tease.

02:59All right, thank you so much for your time.

03:00Enjoy tonight.

03:01Thanks a lot.

03:02Appreciate you.

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