Breaking Baz: Jodie Comer Catches The “Stage Bug” And Paul Mescal Turns Heads At The Olivier Awards After-Party

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Jodie Comer has caught the “stage bug.” Having triumphed in her debut performance in Prima Facie, she’s avidly seeking to follow up with another production in coming years. “I’ll definitely do more theater,” the Killing Eve and Free Guy star told Deadline at the Olivier Awards after-party held at the Natural History Museum in Kensington, London just a hop, skip and a jump from the Royal Albert Hall, where earlier Sunday night the theater world’s luminaries gathered to give themselves a well-earned pat on the back.

The actress pointed to Prima Facie producer James Bierman and said, “I’m going to cling to him. I’ll follow him because he gave me this opportunity.” Comer’s blistering performance as an attorney who defends rapists and is then sexually assaulted by a colleague has won her a stash of best actress hardware, including a statuette at the Olivier’s – the West End’s equivalent of the Tony Awards.

Gut feeling guided her during last year’s original run of Suzie Miller’s drama at the Harold Pinter Theatre. At one point in the play, Tessa, her character, leapt onto a table. “That was instinct,” she explained, noting how she wanted to give a sense of Tessa’s physicality. “As the run went on I became more and more fearless and learned more about myself, my emotions and my instincts because of playing her,” she added.

Comer’s father saw her first preview and final performance.” Dad was impressed. “He said: ‘You’ve become quicker,'” she laughed as she held court with friends on the edge of the museum’s makeshift dance floor.