-Welcome, Jodie. -Thank you so much.
-I'm so happy you're here. I love this show.
You're fantastic.
You play a sociopathic assassin --
I think that's fair to say.
-Yeah, that's pretty fair to say, yeah, definitely.
-With a lot of charm, though.
-Yeah, she's loveable, I think. -Yeah.
-I love her anyway. -Well, we were talking
backstage, because I also love her.
Have you been surprised by how many people love
your psychopathic stone-cold killer?
[ Light laughter ] -I've got to say I am.
I feel like everyone's questioning their morals
a little bit. They're like,
"I'm kind of rooting for her a little bit."
-Uh-huh. -Which I wanted.
I wanted people to be a little bit scared of her,
but then kind of want to be her friend.
-Yeah.
-You know, go for a drink with her.
-And your co-star Sandra Oh -- -Yes.
-A fantastic actress as well. -Yeah.
-And it's such a wonderful show
to have these two really strong female characters.
When you first met Sandra, what was that like?
-Pretty special.
I was on holiday in Barcelona,
and I got a call that I had got a recall for the role,
so I had to fly to L.A. for one day.
And yeah, I met Sandra in this kind of little
dingy office in -- oh, God, I don't really know L.A.,
but in the middle of L.A. somewhere.
-There's a bunch of those dingy offices.
-Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was in one of them.
-"Do you know the dingy office in L.A.?"
"Oh, yes, very familiar." -Been there, yeah.
So yeah. So we -- for any of you who have seen the show,
we did the kind of epic scene from episode five
where they meet for the first time,
that clip, actually, and yeah --
Villanelle eats a lot in that scene,
and it was Sandra's perfect idea actually to --
she got all the props in.
'Cause I don't know, like, when you have to act
without a prop, you suddenly forget, like...
-Yeah. -...how to pick up a cup
and how to be a normal person.
So she -- she got all the props, and she got me
a huge blueberry pie to eat,
rather than the cottage pie, thank God.
Yeah, and then by the time I'd left, I'd pretty much
gone through the whole thing.
-So over the course of an audition,
you ate an entire blueberry pie? -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was like, if this doesn't get me the part alone, then --
I don't know. I don't know what it is.
-But that's nice because even if you didn't get the part,
free pie. -Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
-A lot of auditions, you walk out of there,
and then got to go buy your pie.
-And it was from Whole Foods as well.
I was like, "Oh! Fancy pie!" -Oh, well done, Sandra Oh!
-Yeah. -Yeah. [ Laughs ]
You -- the kill scenes on the show are --
I know this again makes me sound like a sociopath --
they're delightful. -Yes, thank you.
-But there's something really nice --
I mean, I feel like we've seen so many portrayals of assassins.
Pretty much, when Villanelle -- when people ask
if she's there to kill them, she just gives it right up,
and she just says, "Yeah." -Yeah.
-That must be so much fun to play.
-It is. I mean, the best part
was getting a new episode through,
and I was just thinking, "What on earth
has Phoebe Waller-Bridge got me doing now?"
But it was always just something so bizarre and random,
which -- again, which I think keeps the show quite fresh
because it's not what you expect.
-Phoebe Waller-Bridge is an incredible
actress, writer, she created the show "Fleabag,"
which is another brilliant piece of writing.
And you had met her before this show,
or did you meet her through the show?
-I met her briefly at -- God --
drunkenly, in a hotel room after the BAFTAs.
-The BAFTAs? So like the British Oscars.
-Yep. Yeah. -Okay.
And then did you know who she was?
-Oh, yeah, oh, my God. -Okay, good.
-I was totally, like, I was trying not to fangirl
because I was obsessed with "Fleabag,"
and then obviously when I got the call through
about the audition, I was like, "Oh, I was really drunk."
-Oh, no. -Yeah.
-You were so drunk that you were worried --
-Well, no. No, no, no. Well, I just got the fear.
You know, you get the fear sometimes.
-Of course. -And --
But then, like, we spoke on the phone, and she was like,
"Oh, my God, we were so drunk,"
and I was like, "Oh, it's okay."
We were both -- we were -- -You were both there.
-We were both in the same boat,
yeah, so it was -- it was lovely.
-As all assassins do,
you speak a lot of languages in the show --
a little Russian, French, Italian.
-Just a little. -Are you --
Do you speak all those languages?
-No. I speak no languages. -Oh, wow.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -I'm very impressed.
-Thank you. I mean, I'm kind of appalled that I didn't --
I mean, I'd done Spanish and French for like five years
in school, and I can't say anything.
So that's not very good. -Really? I can do one worse.
My mother was a middle school French teacher,
my middle school French teacher. Nothing.
-Nothing? -Yeah.
-I mean -- and I actually probably couldn't recite
any of the lines from the -- of the show either.
-How do you learn them then? -Um, well, all the languages,
I wrote them out as they sounded,
which seemed like the easiest way to learn them,
but I had an amazing voice coach who, you know, kept me in line.
And also when we filmed in Tuscany
and I was doing the Italian, I just said to the crew,
I was like, "Please, if I'm not doing this any justice,
please just give me a little tap on the shoulder,"
so they did. -Oh, that's very nice.
-Yeah, they really helped me out.
-Well, again, it would be an honor
to learn languages from you, to be murdered by you.
[ Laughter ] All of them.
-You should careful what you wish for.
-No, please, seriously, any one of them.
Congratulations on the show. -Thank you so much.
-It's really just lovely to meet you and talk.
-Thank you, guys. -Jodie Comer, everybody.
"Killing Eve" airs Sunday nights on BBC America.