He’s going from the Highlands to the suburbs.
Sam Heughan, greatest identified for starring in “Outlander” because the dashing Scotsman Jamie Fraser, takes a darker flip within the steamy thriller, “The Couple Next Door.”
“It just felt like a completely different character,” Heughan, 44, completely advised The Put up.
“I liked the fact that he was ambiguous and you make assumptions about who [my character] Danny is in the first two episodes, and then you reveal more about his past and how complicated it is.”
Premiering Friday, Jan. 17 (9 p.m. on Starz), “The Couple Next Door” additionally aired within the UK (Channel 4). It follows instructor Evie (Eleanor Tomlinson) and her journalist husband, Pete (Alfred Enoch, “Harry Potter”), who transfer into an idyllic suburban neighborhood subsequent to visitors cop Danny (Heughan) and his spouse, yoga instructor Becka (Jessica De Gouw).
Evie and Pete are extra buttoned up, they usually’re shocked to study that Danny and Becka have a non-monogamous relationship. Quickly, the 2 {couples} get entangled with one another just a little too intently, and occasions spiral uncontrolled.
As a morally ambiguous man who rides a motorbike, Danny is a far cry from the last word good man that Heughan performs in “Outlander.”
“Jamie Fraser has been an incredible gift of a character and iconic one – one that’s lasted 11 years, eight seasons, 101 episodes. I think it’s rare to get a character like that. It may be a once in a lifetime thing,” stated Heughan.
“But, the appeal for ‘The Couple Next Door’ was this morally ambiguous character who, on the surface, is a bit of an alpha male. But deep down there’s just some goodness to him, despite his bad choices.”
As totally different as the 2 characters are, each “The Couple Next Door” and “Outlander” contain Heughan doing steamy scenes.
“I don’t love or hate [doing sex scenes], it’s just a part of the story, I suppose,” he stated.
“But certainly, I guess my time on ‘Outlander’ has given me a lot of education or experience in how to deal with that.”
“The Couple Next Door” even used the identical intimacy coordinator he’d labored with in “Outlander,” Vanesa Coffey, Heughan defined.
For the reason that present filmed in Belgium, it was “a very different kind of production” that “hadn’t really dealt with those kinds of scenes before, or were immersed in sort of the protocol of it,” Heughan stated.
“[Coffey] was really helpful in helping us explore what it is for four characters essentially to have a relationship.”
Relating to the a part of the story the place Danny and Becka have a non-monogamous relationship, Heughan stated, “We talked quite a lot about it, because we wanted to get it right. We didn’t want to make it just something salacious. We wanted to show that this couple probably had worked through quite a lot together, and it could work.”
He added, “I think it is complex and difficult, but ultimately I think it’s probably the most loving that a relationship could possibly be. The fact that they would allow each other to seek pleasure just shows how strong that their bond is.”
