[Interview] The Couple Next Door’s Sam Heughan and Jessica de Gouw on Attraction to Evie and Pete and Creepy Suburbs

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The Couple Next Door, the hit UK series, is finally making its US debut on Starz. The Couple Next Door is about Danny and Jessica, a couple who are in a nonmonogamous. But when they decide to break their own rule of not hooking up with friends and invite the couple next door, Beck and Pete, into their relationship, life on the quiet suburban street becomes dangerous.

The Couple Next Door stars, Sam Heughan as PC Danny Whitwell, Jessica De Gouw as Becka Whitwell, Eleanor Tomlinson as Evie Greenwood, Alfred Enoch as Pete Thomas, and Hugh Dennis as Alan Richardson

I talked to Sam Heughan and Jessica De Gouw about what it was like for Sam to play such a different character than Jamie, his Outlander character, why Danny and Becka are attracted to Evie and Pete, if Jame is trying to belittle Pete, and why the suburbs are so creepy.

The Couple Next Door airs on Fridays on Starz.