Saturday 7 September 2024

Netflix's 'The Perfect Couple' to Film in Chatham




Denise Coffey, George Kostinas  |  Cape Cod Times

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https://eu.capecodtimes.com/story/entertainment/movies/2024/09/05/netflix-perfect-couple-chatham-hyannis-nantucket-ma-elin-hilderbrand-kidman/75083983007/

 

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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Photos: 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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