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Jodie Comer's audition as Killing Eve assassin was 'perfect straight out of the box'

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Jodie Comer delivered the deadpan lines with an arched eyebrow and a curled lip – and the creators of Killing Eve knew they had their assassin.

It was her audition to play unhinged Villanelle – and she nailed it. Luke Jennings, who wrote the books the series is based on, says: “Jodie was exactly it.

She jumped out of the screen.” Jodie read the lines from a scene where Villanelle is at a psychiatric evaluation – in an extravagant pink ballerina dress.

With Luke was Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, screenwriter on the first series of Eve. Luke says: “This was a chance to see her speaking Phoebe’s lines. "She was perfect immediately.

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