Denise
Coffey, George Kostinas | Cape Cod Times
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Hollywood
turns Chatham into Nantucket for filming of a Netflix series "The Perfect
Couple based on Elin Hilderbrand novel of the same name.
"The
Perfect Couple," a Netflix series starring Nicole Kidman, Dakota Fanning,
Liev Schreiber and others, debuted today on the streaming service.
Adapted from
Elin Hilderbrand’s 2018 novel of the same name, the murder mystery at a wedding
is set on Nantucket and was filmed on the island, in Chatham and even in
Hyannis for a day.
With the
film’s release, viewers will get a glimpse into the lives of the rich and
famous, or at least a glimpse inside the mind of Hilderbrand. Living on
Nantucket since 1994, and with 28 books to her credit, she’s got a lot to offer
those who want a stunningly visual read of her mystery.
A Chatham
neighborhood is the backdrop
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Picketers stop Netflix's filming of Perfect Couple in Chatham
Writers and
supporters of the Writers Guild of America picketed two locations of the
Perfect Couple during production on the Cape last year.
The private
Eastward Point neighborhood in Chatham serves as a backdrop for the family
drama. It’s not hard to imagine the gorgeous home fronting Pleasant Bay fitting
right in on Nantucket.
And to give
that real Nantucket feel to the story there are scenes from the island itself.
Filming in
2023 was interrupted when members of the Writers Guild of America and their
supporters picketed Chatham sites. Streets in the neighborhood were blocked off
during the shooting of the film to keep the picketers, and curious bystanders
away.
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Pertfect
Couple Netflix series filming Hyannis Inner Harbor
Production
crews for the Netflix movie The Perfect Couple filled the Hyannis Inner Harbor
filming several scenes around the Grey Lady Ferry.
How 'Perfect
Couple' film crews made Chatham into Nantucket
In April
2023, on Orleans Road in North Chatham, film crews constructed a fake Nantucket
police station between Chatham Light Liquors and the Chatham Perk coffee shop.
A white entrance way with columns and a sign reading "Nantucket
Police," went up, right in front two vehicles marked as Nantucket police
cars.
The Chatham
Light Liquors store on the left had a new sign: Grey Lady Liquors, and on the
Chatham Perk coffee shop on the right there is a sign that read “Lighthouse
Perk.”
With those
modifications to the Northport Plaza parking lot, a section of Chatham was
transformed into a location on the island of Nantucket for the filming of
Netflix's new six-part series of "The Perfect Couple."
Why Chatham?
Sean
Gibbons, a location production assistant for the series, said, generally, that
filming in Chatham — rather than filming the whole show in Nantucket with its
ferry requirements and other transportation limitations — was a matter of
convenience, and it gave the production company the ability to closely
approximate Nantucket.
More about
'The Perfect Couple'
The mystery
brings viewers into the lives of a rich and famous Nantucket couple preparing
for the wedding of their son. Nicole Kidman stars as Greer Garrison Winbury,
mystery writer and mother of the groom, Thomas Winbury (Billy Howle). Liev
Schreiber is Greer’s husband, Tag. Bride Amelia Sacks is played by Eve Hewson
and Dakota Fanning is sister-in-law Abby Winbury.
Hilderbrand’s
novel shot to the top of The New York Times bestseller list weeks after its
release in 2018. With 28 romance novels to her name, Hildenbrand is known as
the “queen of beach reads,” and her website proves it. Book covers showcase
sailboats, waves and water, couples in sunlight and under beach umbrellas.
Books are grouped into summer, winter and paradise sections. This novel is her
first mystery involving a death, according to Super Summary.
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