How Donald Glover and Maya Erskine put on the hottest affair on TV (without having an affair)

When it was announced that Donald Glover and Maya Erskine would star in a TV reboot of the spy romcom Mr & Mrs Smith, everyone cracked the same joke: “Careful you two!” Who could forget the affair that shook Tinseltown when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie famously fell in love on the set of the 2005 original? (Jennifer Aniston might like to).

So, were Glover and Erskine’s partners concerned? “God, no!” Erskine cackles. The 36-year-old, best known for her funny, visceral Emmy-nominated comedy series , looks over at Glover – an Emmy winner himself and co-creator of the brilliantly avant-weird series . (He’s a Grammy winner, too, thanks to his other career making music under the stage name Childish Gambino.) In fact, they did get married (to other people) around the making of the show. “So it definitely had an impact on us both,” Erskine jokes, having asked Glover’s permission before divulging news of their respective