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  • It is so nice to meet you.

  • You, too.

  • Thanks for having me.

  • This is very surreal.

  • That's your accent.

  • Yeah.

  • Sandra Oh said when I meet you, I'm

  • going to be surprised by your accent.

  • So you're from Liverpool.

  • Yes.

  • Yeah.

  • Liverpool.

  • OK.

  • Home of the Beatles.

  • Yes, exactly.

  • But I'm so shocked to hear that because I just don't--

  • in Doctor Foster, you had an American accent, right?

  • No, she was British.

  • Oh, she was British.

  • Yeah.

  • Maybe I--

  • Didn't do a good job there.

  • No.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • No, she was British.

  • She was from London, yeah.

  • And so now, you play a Russian assassin in this.

  • And you have all kinds of accents in this.

  • Yes.

  • And languages.

  • That was a big part of the character.

  • When I auditioned, they were like, you know,

  • she speaks a lot of languages.

  • And obviously, in the audition process, I was like, oh, yeah.

  • Fine.

  • Like, not thinking about it.

  • And then, when we got to set, I was like, oh, this is real.

  • Yeah.

  • It's an intense character.

  • Yeah.

  • It's a really intense character.

  • So a little bit of-- if you haven't seen Killing Eve,

  • just this cover of Entertainment Weekly is--

  • Fancy.

  • Yeah.

  • Showing you kissing a knife.

  • Yeah.

  • That was my decision.

  • Yeah.

  • Well--

  • You can imagine.

  • It's good for the character.

  • That's amazing, that cover.

  • Yeah.

  • It was a great day.

  • Yeah.

  • Yeah.

  • So all right.

  • Tell everybody-- explain who you are.

  • You have so many different characters

  • within your character.

  • Yeah.

  • Well, I mean, I kind of had to view Villanelle

  • as an actress in many ways.

  • She puts on these personas.

  • She dresses up.

  • She uses the accents and the languages.

  • And it's all a ploy to kind of trap her victims

  • and lure them in.

  • But it's a wonderful aspect of playing her.

  • It's a lot of fun.

  • Yeah.

  • I've seen the first two episodes of season two.

  • Oh, great.

  • And I'm just--

  • I can't wait to see the rest.

  • It's such a great show.

  • Thank you.

  • And you get to do-- now, there's a lot

  • of like climbing buildings and riding motorcycles.

  • Do you do a lot of that?

  • Do you like doing--

  • No.

  • No.

  • No.

  • I'm so uncoordinated, and I'm not agile at all.

  • I have an incredible stunt double, Jessica.

  • But there were a lot of outtakes of me.

  • You know, it might be written in the script

  • like she pulls out a knife very smoothly.

  • But then, there's like 15 outtakes of me

  • trying to do that convincingly.

  • So yeah, a lot of it's smoke and mirrors.

  • So what is the day on the set that you were eating pasta,

  • and that was the most dangerous day?

  • I don't understand that.

  • Yeah.

  • Well, that was in series two.

  • She was being her usual self, showing off

  • and trying to prove a point whilst shoveling

  • mouthfuls of pasta.

  • And it came to my close up, so I was really going for it.

  • Bear in mind I was eating pasta from 9:00 AM,

  • and this was about half 4:00 in the afternoon,

  • so it was a lot of pasta.

  • And it was particularly dry and rather large.

  • And surprisingly, it shot down the back of my throat mid-take.

  • And the actor opposite me kind of

  • thought I was making a really weird acting choice and was

  • like--

  • Watching you choke.

  • Watching me choke.

  • Yeah, it was all on camera.

  • And then, everyone kind of realized

  • that it was actually a very serious moment

  • and kind of ran in to help me?

  • And did someone give you the Heimlich?

  • What happened?

  • No.

  • Well, just before that was about to happen, it passed.

  • But when I told my brother, my brother

  • was like, I just love the fact that of all the things

  • that could potentially kill Villanelle, it was--

  • It's that.

  • Yeah.

  • It was a mouthful of pasta.

  • Well, Sandra Oh's character should know that and feed you

  • pasta.

  • Yeah.

  • Yeah.

  • I mean, someone should tell her.

  • So do you-- do you visit Los Angeles often?

  • I have done over the past three years.

  • Do you like it?

  • I like it.

  • I don't think it likes me.

  • Why is that?

  • Every time I'm in LA, something really strange happens.

  • Like what?

  • For instance, the first time I was here, I had to-- well,

  • kind of got kicked out of my Airbnb

  • because I wouldn't sign a subtenant agreement form.

  • The second time, I got bed bugs, so I

  • was going to loads of meetings head to toe in bites,

  • which is really attractive.

  • And then, I was here in January, and I

  • had to get all my wisdom teeth removed.

  • Emergency dental surgery.

  • All of them at once?

  • Like, what happened that you all of a sudden--

  • They were impacted.

  • It was right before the Golden Globes,

  • so I was being a bit of a party pooper at the Golden Globes,

  • which wasn't like me.

  • So that's when I knew something was--

  • something was wrong.

  • God, that's horrible.

  • Yeah.

  • So touch wood.

  • Nothing's actually happened--

  • Yet.

  • --this time.

  • Yet.

  • Good.

  • Well, I want you to get away from me as soon as possible.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • But I really-- I couldn't wait to meet you because,

  • like I said, I loved you in Doctor Foster,

  • even though I forgot which country you came from.

  • And I absolutely adore Killing Eve.

  • It's just such an amazing character.

  • Thank you.

  • It's just so incredible.

  • So I can't wait to see the whole thing.

  • Thank you.

  • Killing Eve airs Sundays at 8:00 on AMC and BBC America.

  • We'll be right back.

It is so nice to meet you.

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