We knew that Killing Eve has attracted some dedicated fans, but Jodie Comer has revealed that one took things a little too far.
During an appearance on Friday’s Graham Norton Show, the British actress, who plays psychopathic assassin Villanelle in the BBC hit, said she had a particularly bizarre request when she met one fan recently.
She said: “A lot of people just look at me in a ‘is it her?’ sort of way, but recently I had a really strange one – a woman asked for a photograph with me and then she whispered in my ear, ‘Will you strangle me?’ I said, ‘No!’”
The 26-year-old also talked about the level of expectation on the second series, which has just started airing in the US.
“There is a lot more pressure because of expectations and everyone is waiting on tenterhooks for it to come out, but once you start filming, you just have to put that to one side,” she said.
Jodie, who has also starred in Doctor Foster, My Mad Fat Diary and The White Princess, has won global acclaim since Killing Eve hit screens.
The darkly comic cat-and-mouse crime drama sees Sandra Oh play MI5 operative Eve Polastri, who becomes obsessed with Comer’s psychopathic killer.
The show, adapted by Fleabag star Pheobe Waller-Bridge from Luke Jennings’ Codename Villanelle novella series, recently picked up 14 TV Bafta nominations.
Catch Jodie’s appearance on The Graham Norton Show alongside Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson, Daniel Radcliffe and the singer Mabel on Friday evening (19 April) at 10.30pm on BBC One.