Nicola Walker, Jemaine Clement star as best-friends-turned-rivals in 'Alice and Steve'

When Steve begins dating his best friend Alice's daughter, it turns their worlds upside down in a chaotic feud.

ByAmy Becker OTRC logo
Monday, June 8, 2026 11:11PM
Nicola Walker, Jemaine Clement are besties-turned-rivals in new comedy

If you're looking for your next comedy binge, look no further than Hulu's "Alice and Steve."

The series tackles the chaos that ensues when Steve (Jemaine Clement) begins dating his best friend Alice's (Nicola Walker) 26-year-old daughter (Yali Topol Margalith).

On The Red Carpet spoke with the cast and creator about the show.

"We meet him in a time in his life where he's open to love to such a degree that he's about to make quite a big mistake," Clement says of Steve.

When Izzy reveals to her mom that she has slept with Steve, their worlds turn upside down, in more ways than one.

"That is the grenade, quite gently, lobbed into all of our lives," Walker says of the moment. "That's where it begins."

When that bomb is dropped, all Hell breaks loose between the two (now ex) besties.

Creator Sophie Goodhart tells us she got inspiration from the movie "War of the Roses" (which was recently remade as "The Roses," starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman).

"I love 'War of the Roses.' I love that movie. And so that was a bit of an inspiration when writing. It was like, 'okay, how do we go up a notch?' And it was just, you know, by episode six, you're all kind of like," Goodhart gives us her best surprised expression, because yes, the season one finale episode is that shocking.

Over the course of the six-episode season, Alice and Steve keep trying to one-up each other with their sabotaging. One moment, which was featured in the trailer, shows Alice and Steve on a phone call. When Steve picks up, Alice heatedly tells him, "I hope you fall out of your window and get pierced in the heart by your railing and that no one comes to your funeral!"

"Sophie asks you to get all of the colors out of the crayon box. She wants the whole spectrum of colors, and that's brilliant for an actor," Walker explains.

Clement echoes the same sentiment. "Some of our favorite scenes to do were the part where we're seeing our friendship at its best and the part when we see it at its worst, (it's) kind of the most fun part."

"The extremes, I feel like, especially in the script, it's always so clear. 'Oh, it's just, it's gotta be this.' And I think maybe that's why it's the most fun," Margalith hypothesizes.

Underneath all of the chaos, Clement says the show is truly "about different forms of love, and a big part of it is about platonic love, you know, a friendship."

Season 1 of "Alice and Steve" is streaming now on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.

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