'Killing Eve' star Jodie Comer talks about playing the fascinating Villanelle, the start of Season 2, the art of playing a killer, and Bruce Springsteen.
Actress Jodie Comer, who plays the sociopathic assassin trying to hunt down British intelligence agent Eve Polastri in the BBC America drama"Killing Eve."
“I woke up the next day with a hangover and I went onto Google,” she begins. “Do you ever do that when you’ve been on a night out? Like, go to your phone and are like, oh my God, what was I searching last night? Or you go on your Spotify and you’re like, OK, the Okie Cokie came out last night? Don’t remember that one.”Going into Season 2, there’s a bit of comfort because you know that you have something that resonates with people and something people like.
“Going into Season 2, there’s a bit of comfort because you know that you have something that resonates with people and something people like,” Comer says. “But then it definitely adds the pressure of just the expectations.”Expectations aren’t all that familiar to Comer. Her parents, whom she still lives with in Liverpool, work far outside the entertainment business: Her father is a sports massage therapist and her mother works for a public transportation company.
“In that shepherd’s pie reading, she just could move with extraordinary elasticity in terms of tone. She could play it dark and she could play it so you completely bought into this sub story she was giving you. She cried one moment, she was vicious and cruel in the next, and can be funny too. She knew all of those beats and hit them all perfectly — with no direction.”
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