The last time I saw Annabel Scholey on screen, she was making a champagne-cork-popping entrance into the mile-high club in the raciest opening scene of the year – red stilettos wrapped around the waist of playboy showjumper Rupert Campbell-Black on Concorde in the hit Disney Plus series Rivals. By the episode’s end, she had delivered the mother of all public slaps before hightailing it in his vintage sports car. It was quite the cameo.
Today, I catch Scholey, 40, in a less compromising position: cocooned in a cosy grey sweater, speaking from a hotel room in Holland where she’s filming the second season of The Couple Next Door, Channel 4’s sultry suburban thriller. “I thought that by my late thirties, I’d be doing less of these sexy roles but I’m getting more,” she laughs. “And even if that’s terrifying, it’s also amazing because I feel like the industry is starting to shift.”
