Crossing swords again, Killing Eve stars ready for their comeback
THEIR sexually charged game of catand-mouse left viewers on the edge of their seats in the critically acclaimed thriller Killing Eve.
Now Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh are sparring yet again as the BBC’s international hit drama returns for a second series.
The stars are seen fencing while wearing elegant Grecian gowns in a picture released ahead of the new series and featured in Entertainment Weekly magazine.
British actress Miss Comer, 25, wowed viewers with her barnstorming portrayal of razor-sharp assassin Villanelle.
The murderess spent the first season being hunted by Eve, an MI6 intelligence officer played by Canadian actress Miss Oh, 47, and the characters become obsessed with each other.
In the new picture Miss Oh – who won a best actress Golden Globe for her role – stares intently in her nemesis’s eyes as she poses in the creped, white flowing gown.
Similarly Liverpool-born Miss Comer looks the picture of grace in her silvery blue dress. It is reminiscent of her appearance in a pink ballgown in the first series – and a far cry from the dramatic scene where Villanelle was shown holding a knife to the throat of a panicked Eve.
Miss Comer recently revealed that she suffered a near-death experience while filming the eagerly anticipated series.
She told Entertainment Weekly that her character has a lengthy scene where she eats pasta ‘in a very grotesque way’.
While scoffing on the pasta, the actress found she couldn’t breathe and nearly choked.
‘She’s playing it up, being her usual childish self, and the pasta was extremely dry,’ Miss Comer said. ‘And it was extremely thick. I was shovelling it in, and then it just shot down my throat and then I was full-on choking.
‘They must have it on camera. A medic came in and managed to get it out, but my life definitely flashed before me. It was my most dangerous Villanelle moment.’
Series two of the drama will debut on April 7.