Yahoo News Killing Eve's Jodie Comer almost died while filming season 2
Killing Eve star Jodie Comer has revealed that her dangerous character Villanelle almost cost the actress her own life during filming on the show's second season.
While we've seen dangerous assassin Villanelle kill her victims using anything from poison, guns and knives, actress Jodie told Entertainment Weekly that she almost died when she was filming a pasta-eating scene for the upcoming episodes.
"Oh. My. God!" she replied when asked about the incident. "This is actually really triggering. I told my brother about it and he was like, 'I love this. Of all the things that could have killed Villanelle, it was a mouthful of pasta'."
Explaining what happened, Jodie shared that she was filming as Villanelle when the pasta she was eating "shot down" her throat and caused her to choke.
"It's a scene where she's eating some pasta in a very grotesque way," Jodie said. "She's trying to prove a point about something. She's playing it up, being her usual childish self, and the pasta was extremely dry. And it was extremely thick.
"I was shovelling it in, and then it just shot down my throat and then I was full-on choking. They must have it on camera - a medic came in and managed to get it out, but my life definitely flashed before me…
"I just remember being opposite the other actor and looking at him, and he thought I was making a weird acting choice. So yeah, it’s ruined pasta for me completely."
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Jodie's Killing Eve co-star Sandra Oh called the whole thing "scary", adding that "it's only funny because you're fine" as Jodie recounted the story.
"Honestly, I was full-on crying," Jodie added. "It was my most dangerous Villanelle moment."
Earlier this year, Jodie teased that season 2 has a huge twist in store following on from season one's cliffhanger ending.
"The story picks up right from where we left off," she said back in January. "Obviously Eve stabbed Villanelle. Let's not forget that. But what's going to be really interesting for the audience is how Villanelle reacts to that.
"It may not be as they suspect it will be."
The first-look trailer for Killing Eve season 2 resolved that cliffhanger ending, but it seems it's not long before Villanelle is back to her old tricks and potentially returning to the UK, despite her brush with death.
Well, we wouldn't have it any other way.
Killing Eve season 2 lands on AMC and BBC America on April 7. An air date for the show on BBC One has yet to be confirmed.
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