“I thought that would have been the strongest and most interesting ending.”
Spoilers for the ending of ‘Killing Eve’ below.
‘Killing Eve’ fans were left beyond frustrated last month when the show’s fourth and final season came to a rather brutal end. In the final moments of the long-awaited finale, Villanelle (Jodie Comer) was tragically shot and killed by a sniper, just when it seemed she and Eve would finally be happily ever after..
Now Sandra Oh, who plays Eve Polastri on the hit series, has revealed that the last episode almost had an alternate ending where Eve was supposed to die and Villanelle was supposed to live.
In an interview with dead linethe actress said: “To be honest, it was going to be the other way around”.
“When I spoke in early 2020 with Laura Neal, our lead writer, we discussed how we were going to end the story. I said something like: ‘You should kill my character.’ I thought that would be the strongest and most interesting ending. And not only that, I emotionally felt like it was the right place where I was, because at the end of Season 3, I felt like Eve was starting to get into a kind of nihilistic place, and at that point we were like, ‘Let’s continue that line.'”
The actress of ‘The director’ continued explaining that the ending changed when the pandemic shut down production.
“The pandemic happened, and then sometime over the summer, they came to me and said: ‘We can not do it. We have to change it. Eve needs to live’. Eve is our gateway to this whole world, she’s our worldly hero, so she would have been really depressing if she died. So we changed it and Jodie was totally on board with that.“.
In addition to the disappointment of the fans, ‘Killing Eve’ Author Luke Jennings Expressed His Disappointment Over The Series’ Tragic Ending And Promised “Villanelle Will Be Back”.
Jennings said the ending was “a bow to convention” and “a punishment to Villanelle and Eve for the bloody and erotic mayhem they have caused”. He continued: “A truly subversive story would have defied that trope where same-sex lovers on TV dramas are only allowed the most fleeting relationships before one of them is murdered.”
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