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Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh relieved that Killing Eve isn't male fantasy
'We didn't want to cheapen or titillate': Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh express relief that Killing Eve isn't a typical male fantasy drama... as they discuss concerns over that intimate bed scene
One plays a psychopath called Villanelle, while the other plays an agent called Eve Polastri, who works for British intelligence.
And while there are clear lesbian undertones between the two female lead characters in Killing Eve, (Jodie Comer, 26, and Sandra Oh, 47), told Radio Times didn't want their characters' relationship or their roles to be played out like a male fantasy.
The intention, both women say, was not to titillate or cheapen the drama, such as when in the final episode of season one, the women end up on a bed together in Villanelle's flat in Paris.
'We didn't want to cheapen or titillate': Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh told this week's Radio Times they were relieved that Killing Eve wasn't a typical male fantasy drama
Jodie said: 'Do you remember how much work we did on that? It was written as much closer between them than they were.
'We were rehearsing it, and it was like, "This is too much, it’s wrong." So there was pull-back. The audience might want it, but you can’t always give them what they want.'
Jodie admitted that the director was concerned about it but she feels they got the balance right.
Talking about THAT bed scene, Jodie said: 'We were rehearsing it, and it was like, "This is too much, it’s wrong." So there was pull-back'
She said: 'So we were like, "Oh my God, it’s two women on a bed." And I think that [the director] was concerned about it. But then watch how Eve gets on the bed.
'She gets on the bed like an extremely tired middle-aged lady. She’s like, "I’m so tired". It’s not erotic at all.
'Definitely Villanelle is thinking it’s going to be one thing, and Eve is implying it’s going to be that, but that’s how she can get her guard down for two seconds.'
She added: 'The audience might want it, but you can’t always give them what they want'
Villanelle appears to be full of admiration that Eve out-psychopathed her with the stabbing.
Sandra said: 'Isn’t that great? It’s the way that Villanelle takes that stabbing as something extremely intimate...
'You don’t see her revelling in it in that kind of way. She feels connected. She’s a part of her. It’s like something that is on her for ever.'
Jodie also finds her character's costume choices appealing on the show that earned 14 BAFTA nods and five wins.
Many female assassin films play like male fantasies in which perfectly styled women run around the world, killing people in impractical clothing, but Killing Eve is different.
Jodie said: 'Why would any woman scale a wall in six-inch heels? She’d have sensible shoes on that she could kick someone in the face with.'
Sandra continued: 'The focus is unabashedly about the relationship and the psyche of these two female characters.
'There are plenty of shows where there are two women running around doing things.
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'But the focus of this show – how much our characters are involved with each other in a deeply psychological way – is what’s different.
'We’ve been investigating and living in the white, male psyche, and suddenly, when something else pops up, you think, "Wait, that feels more like me!"'
The women are obsessed with each other to a pitch that can only be described as sexual, but not in the conventional sense.
Sandra thinks it could only have been written by a woman - Phoebe Waller-Bridge wrote the first series.
She said: 'The gift of the dress from Villanelle to Eve. I thought only a woman would understand the complexity of what it is to give a beautiful piece of clothing to another woman.'
Read the full interview in this week's Radio Times
Getting along nicely: Sandra and Jodie have become firm friends in real life
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