Killing Eve immediately hooked viewers when it premiered in 2018. People are downright obsessed with the cat-and-mouse story of MI6 agent Eve Polastri’s twisted (and mutual) obsession with assassin Villanelle. After much anticipation from fans, the show will return for Season 2 on April 7th. Recently, stars Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer sat down with Entertainment Weekly to talk about the new season, and in the interview, Comer revealed that she had a particularly scary—and life-threatening—experience on set.
For some background, Comer plays Villanelle—a woman who has been hit in the face with a Scotch glass, ridden a motorcycle, and scaled literal buildings. But ironically, a pasta-eating scene is what almost took her down. When the interviewer brought up the incident, the 25-year-old actress said that it was “really triggering,” although it seems like she can laugh about it now.
"This is actually really triggering. I told my brother about it and he was like, 'I love this. Of all the things that could have killed Villanelle, it was a mouthful of pasta,'" she told Snierson with a laugh.
She elaborated, revealing that during one scene, while her character was eating pasta “in a very grotesque way,” she started choking.
"[Villanelle’s] playing it up, being her usual childish self, and the pasta was extremely dry. And it was extremely thick," Comer recalled. "I was shoveling 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."
We’re just glad that Comer is okay.
Comer and Oh also shared more details about the predator vs. predator dynamic of Killing Eve Season 2. Oh said that Villanelle is is angry, clarifying:
"I feel like in their warped relationship, there’s so much," she said. "[...] This is what also is so complicated in the relationship. I feel that they communicate on a completely different plane, where things like stabbing the other person mean different things."
We absolutely can’t wait for the upcoming season.
