The Perfect Couple: I liked that my character was objectified

You've been walking the red carpet in London and LA and the show you've done with Nicole Kidman is in Netflix's most-watched charts. How does that feel? "Overwhelming, in a good way," says Indian actor Ishaan Khatter. The past few weeks have been intense for the 28-year-old, who plays Shooter Dival in murder mystery The Perfect Couple.

Ishaan says taking the part "was a no-brainer", even though it was different to what he’s previously done. "The most exciting thing about it, the most reassuring thing about it, was the way the character was written and the fact that it didn't feel like a token diversity character," he says. Ishaan, from Mumbai, has largely made his name in Bollywood with films like Pippa and Dhadak, also starring in BBC drama A Suitable Boy.

Speaking to BBC Asian Network's Haroon Rashid, he says the casting process for The Perfect Couple was "ethnicity agnostic" and actors from various backgrounds auditioned. He says his character Shooter is mysterious and "three-dimensional" and credits the writers and director Susanne Bier for this. "The fun is to play into the red herrings," he says.

"It's all you want, for audiences to really be taken for a ride. And it's a testament to good craft," he says. A shower scene featuring Shooter was used in the show's trailers and Ishaan says it was a rare example of a Hollywood production portraying a South Asian man as "desirable".

"Yes, I was objectified," he says, with a smile. "It was one of the things that made the char.