‘Perfect Couple’ Premiere Red Carpet Swarmed By Gnats: ‘You Have a Bug on You!’
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events “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. “Perfect Couple” gnats are the new Met Gala cockroach.At least the cockroach didn’t fly into my mouth.
pic.twitter.com/6VNec7fkBI 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.
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