Intimate sex scenes are what you might assume would cause an actor to consider if they were right for The Couple Next Door — those scenes that linger in the imagination long after the TV is turned off. But what gave Sam Palladio pause for thought was the thought of following in the footsteps of Sam Heughan.
Joking and gym regime aside, auditioning for Jacob, an outwardly successful anaesthetist who’s riven with status issues, was a “no-brainer” for Palladio.
In 2012, Palladio moved to Tennessee for six months to play songwriter Gunnar Scott in a new TV series; that show was Nashville, a glitzy depiction of rivalry between country and western singers. Six months stretched to over a decade.
This has been a creatively rich period, but a combination of an inner yearning and life experiences made this project impossible to ignore.
“I’ve lived a lot of life in the last six or so years, like losing my mum. Those big events opened me as a person to some deeper aspects of life, and you begin to understand yourself a bit more from those challenging situations. I came to Jacob with more of a toolbox of experience and emotion.”
“When I read the last ten pages of the script for episode three, I wondered, ‘How are we going to shoot this?’ Thankfully we had Vanessa, who’s an amazing intimacy coordinator, and we shot a lot of those scenes at the very end of the production, so Annabel, Aggy and I were very comfortable with each other. We were really good mates.”
Palladio is currently single – he suspects not having a partner during production made the work “a little easier” – and I ask if the drama’s exploration of relationships made him ponder the essentials for a happy one.
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