The Couple Next Door official trailer
Sam Heughan is no stranger to saucy scenes thanks to his role in Outlander – and his new thriller The Couple Next Door is expected to be no different.
The six-part Channel 4 series will start airing next week with the whole show dropping as a boxset and sees two couples’ lives inextricably intertwined through secrets and tragedy.
British writer David Allison – who was also behind Marcella and Bedlam – has penned the scripts with The Couple Next Door taking its cue from the Dutch series New Neighbours but carving out its own identity.
Audiences can expect taut, suspense-filled drama filled with ambiguous characters, steamy moments and plenty of twists and turns.
Along with Heughan, 43, The Couple Next Door also stars Poldark actress Eleanor Tomlinson, Harry Potter and How To Get Away With Murder’s Alfred Enoch and Dracula’s Jessica De Gouw.
Speaking at a recent Q&A in London, Heughan and the rest of the cast and creatives detailed what it was like to shoot the more racy scenes for the show.
Tomlinson, 31, said an intimacy coordinator was “absolutely” available to the cast.
She said: “It was actually someone Sam has worked with before, Vanessa [Coffey], and she’s terrific and she’s amazing.
The War of the Worlds actress said: “She made it an incredibly safe space – but for everybody to be able to express what they wanted and what the scene needed to be – and we created that, so it can be the most powerful scene that we wanted.”
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Heughan echoed Tomlinson’s sentiments: “A hundred percent. We had all of us in various ways experience in those kind of scenes and it’s a strong part of the show.
“But Vanessa – who I worked with on Outlander – she’s brilliant and created an atmosphere that was a safe place but also a place for us to inject more intimacy into what appears to be more intimate without having to make it more uncomfortable.”
He quipped how director Dries Vos was “particularly a fan of those rehearsals”.
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Vos, who was also on the panel, joked: “Yes, sex rehearsals are the best. That was sarcasm.
“It’s so technical. Sometimes at some point you have to shout, ‘Climax now! In three, two, one!’”
Heughan was the one who brought Coffey onto Outlander previously after becoming an executive producer on the Starz time travel epic as well as serving as a lead.
The Couple Next Door will not only be airing in the UK on Channel 4 but is going to be coming to Starz in the USA and various other territories at a later date.
The Couple Next Door starts on Channel 4 on Monday, November 27 at 9pm. All episodes will be available to stream as a boxset.
Outlander seasons 1-7 are available to stream on Starz in the USA and on Lionsgate+ in the UK
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