{"id":1514396,"date":"2026-06-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=27782abc1a06e7db12e90e6d6b997df2"},"modified":"2026-06-10T06:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:18:15","slug":"alice-and-steve-stars-talk-ruining-the-friendship-in-new-hulu-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1514396","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Alice and Steve&#8217; stars talk ruining the friendship in new Hulu series"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/ff633961042f058fc7d0d6de3acc701a.jpg\" alt\/><figcaption>Yali Topol Margalith, Jemaine Clement and Nicola Walker attend the 'Alice and Steve' premiere during the 2026 Tribeca Festival at SVA Theater on June 4, 2026, in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Jemaine Clement and Nicola Walker are ruining the friendship in the new Hulu comedy series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aBpDGJkjSdk\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Alice and Steve<\/em><\/a>. The two star as the titular best friends whose relationship is tested when Steve starts dating Alice\u2019s adult daughter, Izzy.<\/p><p>It\u2019s being described as a \u201cwrong com\u201d instead of a rom-com, but Walker tells ABC Audio that while her character, Alice, might call it that, she believes it\u2019s more nuanced.<\/p><p>\u201cI think it's hugely problematic and going to, you know, [be] a grenade that blows up everybody's lives. But I don\u2019t think it\u2019s wrong,\u201d she says of the relationship between Steve and the 26-year-old Izzy.<\/p><p>\u201cNo one is right and nobody is wrong completely, but everyone behaves appallingly at times,\u201d she adds. \u201cAnd yet you understand them and sympathize with them, I think.\u201d<\/p><p>Clement says there\u2019s \u201ca lot of gray area\u201d in terms of the characters\u2019 behavior, and while he doesn\u2019t necessarily relate to Steve, he at least feels for him.<\/p><p>\u201cHe is extremely lonely when we begin, and he's just lost a good friend, a mutual friend of his and Alice\u2019s,\u201d Clement says. \u201cAnd so he's thinking about his entire life at that moment.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><p>All six episodes of <em>Alice and Steve<\/em> are now streaming on Hulu.<\/p><div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aBpDGJkjSdk?si=ru4i93RTNLgDqaDI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yali Topol Margalith, Jemaine Clement and Nicola Walker attend the &#8216;Alice and Steve&#8217; premiere during the 2026 Tribeca Festival at SVA Theater on June 4, 2026, in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)Jemaine Clement and Nicol&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2287,"featured_media":1514399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/ff633961042f058fc7d0d6de3acc701a.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 08:16:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/ff633961042f058fc7d0d6de3acc701a.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1514396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514400,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514396\/revisions\/1514400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1514399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1514396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1514396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1514396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}