Role-playing to spice up your marriage after years of raising children together is normal. Doing it because your wife turns out to be an international assassin on the run? Less normal, but that’s exactly what happens in Role Play.

EW has your exclusive first look at Prime Video’s upcoming comedic action spy thriller starring Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo as Emma and David, a married couple living a quiet life who just want to do something special for their anniversary. But when their plan to role-play as strangers at a fancy hotel accidentally exposes Emma’s secret — that she’s been an assassin this whole time behind David’s back — it causes a snowball effect that puts not only their marriage but also their lives at stake.

Reiner Bajo / Prime Video

Reiner Bajo / Prime Video

“It's a new version of Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” director Thomas Vincent tells EW. “It's about a couple who's struggling with a seven-year itch situation and trying to overcome it.”

Equal parts action-packed and hilarious, the film follows Emma as she tries her best to fix everything once her secret life is exposed and David tries to figure out if their marriage is worth saving. And that struggle is what the director kept coming back to throughout filming.

Reiner Bajo / Prime Video

Reiner Bajo / Prime

“The chemistry between the two of them is what helped us figure out that the movie is about them,” Vincent says. “Whenever we ran into something that was not working as we thought it should, the solution was always: Make it about them as a couple. They love each other, we love seeing them together, but they're a bit tired of each other and she has been lying for a while. How are they going to get over that secret?”

Watch EW’s exclusive first look at the trailer below now:

Role Play premieres Jan. 12 on Prime Video.

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