'Entertainment Weekly' talks to the cast of 'The Couple Next Door' — Sam Heughan, Jessica De Gouw, Eleanor Tomlinson, and Alfred Enoch — about their soapy new Starz thriller.
with over seven years of experience in the entertainment industry. An award-winning journalist, she's written for Turner Classic Movies,, and more. She's worked at EW for six years covering film, TV, theater, music, and books. The author of EW's quarterly romance review column, "Hot Stuff," Maureen holds Master's degrees from both the University of Southern California and the University of Oxford.
Instead, Heughan is playing Danny, a contemporary police officer who, with his wife Becka , leads a bit of an unconventional life via their open relationship. You'd never guess it from their outward suburban propriety, but when a new couple, Evie and Pete , move in next door, their secrets start to spill out.
"A lot of my friends are in the queer community," De Gouw explains of her exposure to polyamory. "Traditional, monogamous relationships are not necessarily the norm. In my life, I'm surrounded by different kinds of relationships. The expectation that you are two people living monogamously forever doesn't necessarily exist in the queer community in the same way. So I feel like I had a bit of insight into that.
Adds Tomlinson: "Jessica and I really wanted to give the women some agency so that they pitched it to the boys. That really helped, and it gave them a bond that wasn't necessarily on the page, which was exciting for us, and important for the women in the show to have that fun between them and then to be the ones that make that decision or suggest that decision.
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