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Notorious Stars Reveal All: Skinny Dipping, Bombed Auditions & Scoop on Their Sexy New Show

Stars Piper Perabo and Daniel Sunjata dish on their new ABC series

By Jean Bentley Sep 22, 2016 8:21 PMTags
Watch: Piper Perabo & Daniel Sunjata Dish on ABC's "Notorious"

Not sure what you'll do without some steamy Olivia Pope romance in your life now that Scandal isn't returning until 2017? Don't worry—the Thursdays at 9 p.m. slow on ABC will remain as hot as ever with new drama Notorious.

Stars Piper Perabo and Daniel Sunjata both agree: "It's sexy!" You could probably have gathered that just by looking at their attractive faces, but it's good to have some reassurance. Another thing? The duo would like you to know that there are two love scenes in the pilot alone.

Notorious follows a successful news producer and a high-powered criminal attorney whose close relationship gives each of them a leg up in their respective workplaces.

"It's a show that examines the point of intersection between news media and the criminal justice system," star Sunjata explains to E! News. "It's topical, it's timely in that sense. It's a show for a thinking person who just wants to lay back and be entertained at the same time."

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Adds Perabo, "What you really see on the show, at least from my story angle, is the behind-the-scene of how she gets all these high-powered guests and it has everything to do with her relationship to this super-powered lawyer."

But back to the sexiness—although Perabo and Sunjata's characters aren't romantically entangled (yet, at least), they do have a natural rapport that you'll see in tonight's premiere and in our interview with them. In the videos above, the pair talk about their new show and then turn the tables on the interview, asking each other one burning question they've been dying to know. (Yes, there's Rescue Me and Coyote Ugly scoop involved.)

Below, though, things get fun. The Notorious costars play a silly game of "Never Have I Ever," and reveal whether they've ever gone skinny dipping (you'll be surprised!), joined the mile high club, gotten out of parking tickets, and more.

Watch: "Notorious" Stars Play 'Never Have I Ever'

Plus, find out who bombed their audition for the movie 8 Mile and who has a terrible Scottish accent. Oh, and who has gone commando to set more than once.

"You show up to set commando and you're like, 'Can you bring me some briefs?' I don't leave those there," one of them reveals. "I'm taking them home!"

Notorious airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on ABC.