‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Star Sandra Oh Makes TV Comeback in Spy Thriller ‘Killing Eve’ [Trailer]

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*BBC AMERICA has released the trailer for “Killing Eve,” the thriller starring Sandra Oh (“Grey’s Anatomy”) and Jodie Comer (“The White Princess”), based on the novellas by Luke Jennings and written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

The series centers on two women; Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose desk-bound job doesn’t fulfill her fantasies of being a spy, and Villanelle is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her.  

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“I think the show has definitely a different tone to the novellas, very much so, and I would say in the novellas the character Eve was much more serious, and also, as I interpreted the novella, was white.  I am not white.  I am Asian,” said Sandra Oh during the BBC portion of the 2018 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour. “And I will say that I was extremely pleased that that was taken into consideration in the casting and wasn’t taken into consideration in the casting, if you know what I’m saying.”

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Executive Producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge turned to the series star and noted: “Sandra’s capacity for humor and to bring humor into such a truthful, dramatic performance is something you do with such ease and style,” she said. “And to be able to do that, we needed Eve to be someone who was witty and hysterically funny, but also very, very vulnerable and frightened, because we didn’t want her to be a hunter that was just so badass that she fearlessly walked into this world and could tote a gun at her assassin,” she explained. 

“She’s still a woman who has been in an office job for a very long time who is slightly bored with her life, so she’s still frightened when she comes up against Villanelle.  We needed that vulnerability so much, so Sandra is the only person in the world that can be both strong, vulnerable and funny.”

“Killing Eve” topples the typical spy-action thriller as these two women, Eve and Villanelle, equally obsessed with each other, go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse. 

When asked how playing Eve compare to her role on “Grey’s Anatomy,” because, as one critic noted, both Cristina and Eve seem to have similar personalities, Oh replied:  “I don’t feel that way. I feel very much in a completely different and separate world with “Killing Eve.”  I was actually really happy for the departure,” she noted. 

“There’s certain things that I can see what you’re saying. They’re both determined characters.  But I’m so interested with her frazzledness, how (Eve) doesn’t have things under control, and how she’s quite insecure and how she has not found her voice, and that’s really what initially gravitated me towards this project,” Oh explained.

“It’s so different that I don’t necessarily have those similar character comparisons at all. But I’m so happy and proud to be playing Eve because it’s a lot of hard work and a lot of fun.”

“Killing Eve” premieres Sunday, April 8^th at 8/7c.

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