Q&A with Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer of KILLING EVE.
BBC AMERICA’s Killing Eve is the thunder of empowered women working in front of and behind the camera - created, developed, produced by, and starring enormously talented women in genre roles traditionally ascribed to men. Starring SAG Award-winner Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy) and Jodie Comer (The White Princess), Killing Eve centers on two women; Eve (Oh) is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose desk-bound job doesn’t fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle (Comer) is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Penned by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) and based on the novellas by Luke Jennings, Killing Eve will follow these two women, equally obsessed with each other, as they go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
In the premiere episode, MI5 security officer Eve Polastri (Oh) is bored in her job and yearns for a more exciting life. When a Russian politician is murdered, Eve is tasked with protecting the only witness and soon finds herself on a collision course with violent and extraordinary assassin, Villanelle (Comer).