The Emmy-winning star has a lot to say about Sunday night’s staggering KillingEve episode
In earlier scripted iterations of the episode, Comer said, it was more obvious from the beginning that Villanelle was secretly on a mission to go to Mother Russia and kill her family. In the actual final version, directed byVillanelle seems genuinely curious about her family, eager to live in their world for a day and see if she can blend into the culture . Even her first outfit is a tip-off to the episode’s nostalgic feel, Comer said.
That sparring match is a rare look at Villanelle’s past, unfurling the character’s psychology and revealing how her mother’s distaste and ultimate abandonment led Villanelle to become a psychopathic assassin. “These two people are faced with the truth and the brutality of what they’ve both done,” Comer said.
The scene is also a demanding, brilliant acting set piece, allowing both actors to alternate between being vicious and vulnerable. It took nearly seven hours to film. “I just wanted to cry my eyes out,” the Emmy-winning Comer said of working with Dodina. “I felt such a deep connection to her, which was actually so lucky. She is just so spectacular. The kind of power that she holds when you do a scene is so intense.
After killing her mother and some of her relatives, Villanelle boards a train to make her escape. As she sits there, she listens to“Crocodile Rock” on her headphones, a song that her family dearly loved. But even though she’s killed a million times before, she looks traumatized on the train, haunted by what she’s done. It’s a crushing, evocative scene signaling that Villanelle’s typically guiltless, psychopathic ways have finally caught up with her.
“I’m really glad that it matches up energy-wise,” Comer said. “I think that [episode] five has such a profound effect on her, especially in regards to what she does. I think the experience of killing her mum was unlike anything else that she’s done.”are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
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