KILLING Eve's Jodie Comer almost ditched her Scouse accent but Line of Duty's Stephen Graham convinced her not to. The 27-year-old uses an array of accents as stylish assassin Villanelle in the hit BBC series, but in real life she has a strong Liverpudlian twang.
As she started out in her acting career, Jodie believed she would need to lose her accent to get ahead. She told the Radio Times: "Do you know what, it’s funny because when I was much younger, when I was with another agency and really young, I don’t know where I got it from, but I thought 'I have to lose my accent'." Thankfully, fellow Scouser Stephen, who starred in the last series of Line of Duty, convinced her not to.
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