The acclaimed Mexican auteur’s long-in-the-making streaming series debut, Disclaimer, received enthusiastic standing ovation at its world premiere Thursday night.

Cuaron and his backers at Apple Studios treated the crowd in Italy to the first 4 episodes of the show — shown in sequence like the first half of a very long film.

But despite the lengthy, 3-hour-plus runtime, the audience was quick to its feet to applaud as the house lights came up.

The film’s cast, led by Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Klein, walked the Venice red carpet under searing Italian sun alongside Cuaron.

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Blanchett drew a burst of cheers upon her arrival — although she was not naked, as she had jokingly suggested earlier in the day. Rather, she was dressed in stunning black pantsuit with plunging neckline and piled necklace of beads at the back.

She was followed by co-stars Sacha Baron Cohen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Louis Partidge, Leila George D’Onofrio and Jung Ho-yeon.

Jung, aka, Hoyeon, a fashion influencer and the breakout star of Netflix’s Squid Game, was the main attraction for many of the Gen-Z festivalgoers lining the Venice carpet, as they erupted in cheers when she stepped out to join Blanchett for the cameras.

Disclaimer tells the story of Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett), an acclaimed journalist whose reputation is based on revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others.

But when she receives a novel from an unknown author, she is horrified to realize she is now the main character in a story that exposes her own darkest secrets.

As Catherine races to uncover the writer’s true identity, she is forced to confront her past before it destroys both her own life and her relationships with her husband Robert (Baron Cohen) and their son Nicholas (Smit-McPhee).

The series launches worldwide on Apple TV+ on October 11 with the first two episodes, followed by new episodes every Friday. The show marks Cuarón’s first show under his overall deal with Apple Studios.