She had picked up the award, amid stiff competition, for leading actress, for playing the flamboyant and seductive psychopath Villanelle in Killing Eve. There’s a Killing Eve launch tonight, then she’ll head back to Boston in the morning, to shoot Free Guy, a new action comedy with Ryan Reynolds. At an afterparty in 2017, she was introduced to Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who wrote and ran the first season of Killing Eve. Photograph: Adam WhiteheadAt the beginning of Killing Eve, season two, Villanelle is bruised, bleeding and down on her luck. Comer auditioned for Killing Eve after the first Baftas she attended, where the two first met.

Source: The Guardian June 02, 2019 06:56 UTC