I’m aware this isn’t a competition of public attention between the two stars of Killing Eve, but we’re also aware that Eve, and the actress who plays her, Sandra Oh, are not receiving the merits, attention and respect they deserve.
Villanelle is amazing, as well as Jodie, and we know a different character like her is easily sold to the public.
C’mon guys. Who would you feel more attracted to? The beautiful, young, blonde girl who wears gorgeous clothes, lives a luxury life, and in her free time commits a few crimes in Europe or the simple and common middle aged woman who has a boring job and a marriage that, even though there’s love, is as boring as her job?
But, the Eve Polastri that Sandra Oh has gifted us, is as amazing as Villanelle. At the same time you look at Eve and say “God, she is so relatable”, you can say “God, she is so fucked up”. And we can say that because of Sandra’s delivery and incredible grace with which she has while playing this character.
Eve is a wonderful and smart woman who even without any training or instructions, could accomplish the solution to a case that not even the well-trained agents could.
Eve, using purely her intuition, intelligence, perception and a bit of obsession for female assassins, has acquired a respect in an area dominated by men. Because a woman like her, dears, deserves nothing less than that. Sandra Oh deserves nothing less than respect.