‘The Good Couple’ Ishaan Khatter Talks Enjoying Reverse Nicole Kidman (Unique)

Bollywood star Ishaan Khatter made his U.S. debut in The Good Couple alongside what he considers to be a reasonably good solid.

“One of many issues that I totally loved about this present is working with some fantastic individuals,” Khatter, 28, tells PEOPLE. “They’re all professionals they usually’re very beneficiant and type.”

The actor says he had an “awe-inspiring first assembly” with costar Nicole Kidman, who performs mom of the groom Greer Garrison Winbury within the Netflix homicide thriller primarily based on Elin Hilderbrand’s guide by the identical title.

“She was as regular as some other actor on set,” Khatter says. “We had some very attention-grabbing issues that we may join on and chat about outdoors of the narrative of the present. She’s an exquisite particular person. She definitely has hypnotizing eyes, which I loved taking part in off of. It was positively a really thrilling foray into the world of Hollywood, so I really feel very grateful. It’ll be one of many pleasures of my younger profession.”

Khatter and the solid filmed in Cape Cod, Mass. over 4 months and spent their downtime whale watching, wine tasting, visiting close by Provincetown — and taking journeys to Dealer Joe’s.

“I can positively say that I’m practically as nicely ensconced with the geography of Cape Cod now as possibly an area could be,” he says.

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The present solid Khatter because the groom’s childhood pal and greatest man Shooter Dival regardless of the character being white in Hiderband’s novel.

“She took the freedom with my character to solid of agnostic of ethnicity,” Khatter says of director Susanne Bier. “Susanne’s imaginative and prescient was very distinct, and I needed her to be my guiding drive and never the guide as a lot.”

Nonetheless, Khatter says he “brushed by way of” the guide to familiarize himself with the story of a homicide that takes place throughout a marriage weekend in Nantucket, Mass. “I feel it delivers the products,” he provides of the difference. “Primarily it is the identical beats, it is the identical arc, it is the identical story and you are going to see it come to life on the display screen.”

It solely took one audition for Khatter to land the position.

“I used to be taking pictures a film in Mumbai and I despatched in a self-tape,” Khatter says of submitting an audition tape. “I did not have a pal or any individual who may assist me shoot the audition, so it is the primary audition in my life that I did taking part in off of my very own voice. I suppose it labored, so I feel I am going to do this extra usually.”

The Good Couple shot to No. 1 on Netflix following its Sept. 5 premiere, and Khatter already has one other present with the streamer within the works: The Royals, wherein he’ll play Prince Charming. Khatter goals of ultimately working with “all-time greats” like Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantaino.

“The most effective outlet and the most effective type of self-expression I’ve in my life is performing and my work,” Khatter says. “I am in no hurry for individuals to get to know me by way of my phrases. I would reasonably allow them to see my work, and hopefully they will be curious to see extra, and hopefully I can preserve stunning them and thrilling them with my work because it comes.”

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The Good Couple is streaming now on Netflix.