Killing Eve is a series of women, more precisely three women. When it was launched in April 2018 on BBC America, then on the return to Canal + in France, two were especially highlighted: the creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, crowned with critical and public success Fleabag , and the actress Sandra Oh, eternal Cristina Yang of Grey's Anatomy . But Jodie Comer then? Despite her ten-year career, the actress, only 26 years old, was almost unknown to viewers. Killing Eve is therefore for many a revelation, not to say a blast as the immensity of his talent, the palette of his game, and this little something insolent and elusive burst on the screen. For latecomers, the series arrives in the clear Sunday evening on TF1 Séries Films.
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Born in Liverpool in 1993, Jodie Comer is not a child star, but almost. In high school, she was spotted by her theater teacher after a monologue during a class show. He sent her to audition for a play on BBC Radio, and it was the start of his career. While working in bars and supermarkets, she chained the castings, and soon the roles in British series, often unpublished in France: The Royal Today, Holby City, Justice, Coming Up, Unclassified cases or London, criminal investigation , the UK version of Law & Order .
Fans of series in general, and of English series in particular, spot Jodie Comer in Diary of an extraordinary teenager, inspired and inspiring teen show about a teenage girl who is ill at ease - she is over 100 kg. She plays there her best friend, beautiful and popular. After three seasons, the series stops, it is 2015, and Jodie wins two successive key roles in her career: the Doctor Foster and Thirteen series .
The double “Doctor Foster” and “Thirteen”
In the first, she plays the young mistress of the heroine's husband, and in a few scenes succeeds in being more than the object of desire in which the series could have confined her. The second sees her play the leading role, that of a kidnapping victim who escapes after 13 years of captivity, with the difficult reintegration that follows within her family. It's very simple, it could have been two different actresses, Jodie Comer is unrecognizable from one series to another. A real tour de force. The United Kingdom then dubbed him by entrusting him with the title role of one of his crowned heads, here Elisabeth of York in the mini-series The White Princess .
Villanelle forever
Jodie Comer could have made a specialty of roles in costumes, an institution across the Channel, but she puts herself in danger with the character of Villanelle de Killing Eve, psychopathic hitman very breakneck on paper, which she transforms , from the casting, in polyglot chameleon melting in the countries it crosses, in turn crazy, dangerous, hilarious, touching. As Phoebe Waller-Bridge explained to CanneSéries 2018, "Jodie can change the temperature of a room into a line of dialogue, it's impressive". And hop, the Emmy Award 2019 for the best actress!
And now ? Hollywood? Better: Star Wars ! You had to be careful, but Jodie Comer entered the dance of blockbusters by the big door, she embodied the mother of Rey in a flashback scene from The Ascension of Skywalker . The public will then find her alongside Ryan Reynolds in Free Player , then Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Adam Driver (sorry) in the next Ridley Scott, and of course, in Killing Eve season 3, scheduled for spring 2020.
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