Nicole Kidman’s New Netflix Series The Perfect Couple Changed a Lead Character’s Name to Avoid Big

the character Eve Houston plays is inspired by a character with the same name as Kidman's in the hit HBO series Nicole Kidman's latest project the perfect couple makes several deviations from its source material including one influenced by one of her most popular roles in the Netflix series Eve Houston plays a character named Amelia however in Ellen hilderbrand's novel The Character is named celect during the show's red carpet Premiere in Hollywood on sept four showrunner Jenna lamia told The Hollywood Reporter the change came about because Kidman 57 played a character named Celeste in HBO's big little lies it was one of several changes Hilder 55 allowed lamea to make it was a 5-year development process for various reasons so it did go through a lot of different forms and it was closer to the book early on lamea Whose writing credits include good girls and awkward told th and then this wonderful director Suzanne beer came on and her influence shifted some things and when we had cast attached that shifted some things never miss a story sign up for people's free daily newsletter to stay up to date on the best of what people has to offer from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories some of the changes were as small as the name change lamea changed celeste's name to Amelia just to avoid any potential confusion a very small reason while fans of Hilda Brand's novel might be upset by the changes the author told lamea she could make any tweak necessary to produce a great TV series I wanted them to make the best possible television show I wasn't worried about how they changed the book she told th I said to Jenna right from the beginning I do not feel precious about this people can go and read the book later or before it'll be a different experience because it is a little bit different they can see how they changed it and I just wanted it to be excellent television Hilda brand also had a hand in casting during the series premiere she told people Lee of shriber was her pick to play Kidman's onscreen husband I was a huge Ray Donovan fan he's one of my favorite actors and I sent my wish to the showrunner she told people and she said I don't know and then a few weeks later she goes Ellen you might get your wish and she didn't say in regard to what but I was hoping that's what she was talking about