The Perfect Couple Were cast right to try to veto opening dance?

Anyone who has been watching The Perfect Couple - Nicole Kidman's glossy whodunnit, which is Netflix's most popular show this month - will have many questions.

- Hollie Richardson

Would you not cancel a book launch days after a murder outside your mansion? Why does Kidman's brother have a cockney accent? And, crucially, what about those opening credits? The stars perform a flashmobstyle dance, to Meghan Trainor's Criminal, spinning and clapping on a beach in their wedding finery to on-the-nose lyrics for 32 seconds.

The director, Susanne Bier, insisted on the Saturday Night Feverinspired number: "I wanted to see all the characters having fun!" It does not seem to have been fun for all. The cast have revealed to Variety that they set up a WhatsApp group to try to veto it.

"Everyone was on that group saying they didn't want to do this because we just didn't understand," said Meghann Fahy, best known for The White Lotus. "I don't think any of us could make sense of doing this choreography in these characters," added Ishaan Khatter, a trained dancer. "We're like: 'Wait, where does this fit into the scheme of things? This was not part of the assignment!"" Even Kidman seemed reluctant, saying of her character: "I didn't feel like Greer would dance." The final nail in the coffin was Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley recreating the dance on This Morning.