Fiona Shaw

The current season of Killing Eve marks the fourth and final in this award-winning series which follows a Russian assassin, Villanelle, played by Jodie Comer, and her unusual relationship with Sandra Oh’s Eve Polastri, a British intelligence officer whose globe-trotting cat-and-mouse game with Villanelle has taken some unexpected turns since the series began in 2018. The principal actors assembled in the Variety Streaming Room series via Zoom to discuss the new season.

Poetry drew the Irish actress to the performing arts. “At school where I always enjoyed doing things like Shakespeare but also poetry, poetry was the big thing.