Jodie Comer relieved the Brits don’t hate Killing Eve
KILLING Eve star Jodie Comer has said she doubted the show would be successful in the UK.
The series was produced by BBC America and later made available to the UK online via the iplayer.
However, Comer, who stars as cold-blooded assassin Villanelle, said she had thought that, despite its success in the US, the show would flop in her home country.
The eight-part series – co-written and executive produced by Phoebe Waller-bridge – in fact received overwhelmingly positive reviews and was nominated for a Golden Globe for best drama TV series.
Ms Comer, 25, told The Big Issue magazine: “It was so crazy, and wonderful. It is lovely there is such a buzz. I have never been part of a show that has had such an enormous response.
“Even after it was a hit in America, the pessimist in me was saying, ‘What if the Brits hate it?’ But they didn’t. They loved it.
“Even in my family, I can tell they genuinely love it and it’s not, ‘We’ll have to watch this because our Jodie’s in it’. My dad has watched it so many times.”
The series stars Comer alongside Grey’s Anatomy actress Sandra Oh in a cat-and-mouse tale of international spies.
Ms Comer said the second series, which is in the final stages of filming, will have a “different energy” but “the same humour and dark moments”.