Fiona Shaw has said she “lost a lot of sleep” over her Killing Eve role, and doubted whether the character could hold the audience’s “imagination”.
The stage and screen actress, 61, plays enigmatic MI6 chief Carolyn Martens in the BBC America spy thriller, which is returning for a third series.
Shaw said she was initially “terrified” by the part because she worried the show’s creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge had written a character that was too “unknowable”.
She told Radio Times: “In the beginning (when Killing Eve started in 2018) you just wanted to believe (Waller-Bridge) and follow her. “I was terrified of the piece.
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