How I Became A Killer

Doctor Foster star Jodie Comer on playing a ruthless female assassin in a new thriller…

- Victoria Wilson

Jodie Comer became a household name as ‘other woman’ Kate Parks in BBC1’s hugely popular drama Doctor Foster. But this week we’ll see a completely different side to her talents when Jodie plays a fearsome Russian assassin in new eight-part spy thriller Killing Eve.

Adapted by Phoebe WallerBridge (writer and star of hit BBC3 sitcom Fleabag) from the books by Luke Jennings, the drama centres on MI5 officer Eve Polastri (played by Grey’s Anatomy star Sandra Oh), who finds herself on the trail of a ruthless killer, code-named Villanelle, played by Jodie.

This first series has already been a huge success in the States and with filming for series two already underway, TV Times sat down with Jodie, 25, to find out what it’s like to play a cold-blooded killer…

What’s it been like playing assassin Villanelle?