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‘The Perfect Couple’ Director Susanne Bier on Working With Nicole Kidman and Turning Down ‘The Night Manager’ Season 2


Susanne Bier, who worked with Nicole Kidman on 'The Undoing,' reunites with the actor for new Netflix series 'The Perfect Couple.'

She’s petite and stylish in an understated way (the viral phrase of the moment “very demure, very mindful” definitely applies), but her Scandi cool belies a single-minded disposition that thrives on challenge. Knowing she would have a short window to bring “The Perfect Couple” to life — to cast the show, prep the crew and familiarize herself with Hilderbrand’s beachy New England milieu —ultimately made the project irresistible. “I remember Sandra texting me, and it was like, Whoa, this is kind of out of control,’” she says of the response, which had fans doing “‘Bird Box’ challenges” to re-create scenes from the movie (including driving a car while blindfolded).

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