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“The Perfect Couple” could be renamed “Attack of the Gnats.”
Swarms of flying insects invaded Netflix’s red carpet premiere of “The Perfect Couple” on Wednesday night at the streamer’s Egyptian Theatre Hollywood.
If the hot and sticky weather wasn’t bad enough, the cast – including Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber and Meghann Fahy – suddenly found themselves swatting away gnats about an hour into the carpet.
“I think one just bit me,” Schreiber said, smacking the back of his neck.
Noticing several bugs on this Variety reporter’s shirt, Fahy said, “You have a bug on you!” When she turned around to see the gnats crawling on the light blue step-and-repeat, Fahy groaned, “Ewww! I don’t like that. I don’t like stuff like that…We gotta leave L.A.”
Later, swatting away the bugs, Fahy said, “It’s so unhinged. We’re gonna swallow one.”
The nasty insects were also seen flying around the lights positioned behind the carpet. “It’s the lights,” one Netflix staffer said. “They’re attracted to the lights.”
It seems even the gnats in Hollywood want their time in the spotlight.
The buggy situation was reminiscent of a cockroach that made its way onto the carpet at the Met Gala in New York City in 2023. Video crews and photographers captured the roach creeping up the carpet before it was unceremoniously stepped on by someone stationed at the front door of the museum.
“The Perfect Couple,” based on Elin Hilderbrand’s novel of the same name, stars Kidman as a best-selling novelist and matriarch of a megarich New York City family. Her seemingly perfect brood begins to unravel when, just hours before she was to host her son’s wedding at their Nantucket estate, someone is found dead on their property.
The six-episode series, which also stars Schreiber, Fahy, Eve Hewson, Jack Reynor, Dakota Fanning, Billy Howle, Ishaan Khattar, Sam Nivola, Mia Isaac, Donna Lynne Champlin, Michael Beach and Isabelle Adjani, streams on Netflix on Thursday.
See more photos from the “Perfect Couple” premiere below.
Liev Schreiber and Nicole Kidman at the Los Angeles premiere of “The Perfect Couple” held at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on September 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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Taylor Neisen and Liev Schreiber at the Los Angeles premiere of “The Perfect Couple” held at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on September 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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Sam Nivola at the Los Angeles premiere of “The Perfect Couple” held at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on September 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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Donna Lynne Champlin at the Los Angeles premiere of “The Perfect Couple” held at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on September 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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Ishann Khatter at the Los Angeles premiere of “The Perfect Couple” held at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on September 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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Michael Beach and Elisha Wilson at the Los Angeles premiere of “The Perfect Couple” held at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on September 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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Adina Porter at the Los Angeles premiere of “The Perfect Couple” held at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on September 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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Susanne Bier at the Los Angeles premiere of “The Perfect Couple” held at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on September 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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Elin Hilderbrand at the Los Angeles premiere of “The Perfect Couple” held at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on September 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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Jenna Lamia at the Los Angeles premiere of “The Perfect Couple” held at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on September 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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