Liev Schreiber Reveals ‘Perfect Couple’ Costar Nicole Kidman Delivered ‘Biggest Doozies’ of Outtakes

Liev Schreiber quickly learned on the set of The Perfect Couple that Nicole Kidman has a hidden “inappropriate” side.

“I got things from Nicole Kidman that I had no idea existed,” Schreiber, 56, joked during a Thursday, September 12, appearance on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show With Julia Cunningham. “You know, she really exudes grace and elegance and authority and all these things. I’m here to tell you that I have never met anyone so quick to be inappropriate on a set than Nicole.”

According to Schreiber, the 57-year-old actress came up with “some of the biggest doozies” between takes.

One day, they will release the outtakes from this show and all of our improvs, preferably one day after we’re all dead, and you’ll see some extraordinary Nicole Kidman footage,” Schreiber recalled. “It was really fun.

The Perfect Couple, based on Elin Hilderbrand’s bestselling novel of the same name, begins when a beach wedding is uprooted after a dead body washes ashore. The entire Winbury family (including the matriarch and patriarch played by Kidman and Schreiber) are presumed suspects.

Kidman’s outtakes aside, Schreiber had the best time filming the limited series.

“We’ve been friends for years and I never really imagined us working together, so it was one of the great surprises of doing this gig,” Schreiber said on Thursday.

The Ray Donovan star, however, needed convincing to initially take the role.

I had my doubts in the beginning — you know, the character’s such a douche,” Schreiber told TheWrap in a September 8 interview. “I was like, ‘Do I really want to do this?’”

He continued, “[Our director] really opened it up and said there would be improv [and] we’d be able to find the sort of comic elements of it and the duality and the fullness of it, and it just sounded like it would be really fun. I’m thrilled with how it turned out for the most part.