If you cant be with the one you love… put a bullet in her back?
Lets interrogateKilling Eveexecutive producer Sally Woodward Gentile.
What superlatives would you ascribe to season 3?
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Its the most personal season and the most emotionally rocky season.
Villanelle is trying to gain control of her new life in Barcelona and move past what happened.
What more can you say about where we find her and Eve six months later?
Konstantin has completely played her.
Carolyn has completely played her.
Probably the only one that hasn’t played her is Eve.
So she’s got no way to make any money or to live.
But she’s also an incredibly bright woman who’s very resourceful.
Now shes lost the only family that she has, which she thought was the Twelve and Konstantin.
So what has that done to her psyche?
Where has it left her?
That’s where we leave the both of them rocked and trying to work out what really defines them.
Villanelle could have pumped more bullets into Eve if she truly wanted her dead.
What were her intentions there?
I think the intention at that moment she really did think, Well, stuff you!
I think there was an emotional button that just slipped.
I don’t think it was that petulant.
I think that she probably did mean to kill her.
I mean, her track record of guns is not great.
[Laughs] We can assume that that’s not one of her greatest skills.
She tried to shoot Frank Haleton [Darren Boyd].
I mean, admittedly she was shooting with her left hand, that didn’t work.
She tried to shoot Konstantin.
That didn’t work.
Shes not great with a gun.
How does that come into play this season?
Will we learn more about Oxana?
We know very little about Oxana.
She also doesn’t really know what happened to her family.
She’s only had it relayed to her by a third person.
And where do we find Konstantin?
Well, his daughter, Irina [Yuli Lagodinsky] is not dead.
But at some point, surely everythings going to catch up with him.
Eve quit MI6 after being manipulated by Carolyn, but shes back in a room with her.
What developments can viewers expect in that relationship?
Carolyn put her life at risk.
She put her in a situation with another agent that became incredibly compromised, to say the least.
She is probably responsible for the spiriting away of Hugo’s body or wounded Hugo.
Are you ever going to trust Carolyn again?
Its a very complicated relationship.
Was that by the book?
What was [Carolyn] really up to?
Niko (Owen McDonnell) was left in a precarious position the last time we saw him.
What can you hint there?
He really doesn’t have a good time.
[Laughs] Poor, old Niko.
Is he ever a match for Eve?
Eve genuinely believes that he is.
Maybe he realizes that he’s not, and that she’s not the woman that he married.
Or maybe she is the woman that she married but he really didnt see who she was.
He’s left in a really, really miserable place, but he’s not dead.
Miserable but not dead.
The question is, who is complicit and why are they complicit in her disguise?
What are they up to with her?
Is this one of the best outfits of the season?
Well, she’s always got amazing outfits.
She’s got other outfits, which are more subtle, but I think equally striking.
And then she’s got other outfits which are as unsubtle as that one.
[Laughs] She also just looks amazing.
it’s possible for you to’t really put Jodie in anything without her looking pretty amazing.
Even though she’s sort of chameleonic, she always looks incredible.
So thats quite fun to watch.
We also saw a picture of Eve chopping meat.
She’s not going to go back to MI6.
Niko, bless him, is in a poor way at the end of season 2.
So, where does she look to turn up and to work?
I suppose it’s also about, to a degree, about family and belonging and identity.
So it keeps that theme a little bit.
Shes also very, very good at making dumplings.
AndSandraturns out to be incredibly good at making dumplings and at butchering, actually.
Jodie mentioned that there are some really some cool twists and turns within the kills this year.
Is the kill game elevated or a bit different this year?
I think they have more personal resonance this year.
I’m trying to get through each kill in my head.
They continue to be inventive, but you take Villanelle to extraordinary places emotionally in this season.
What impact does that have on her kills?
It’s quite interesting to watch.
Can you leave us with a cryptic reference to your favorite kill?
Tiptoe through the tulips.
Im sorry one more time?
Tiptoe through the tulips.
You said it had to be cryptic!
