Killing Eve season 4 is speeding towards its ending, with fans dying to know what will happen to Sandra Oh’s Eve Polastri and Jodie Comer’s Villanelle.
But while the new series is perhaps its most ambitious yet, some of the more wild ideas didn’t quite make it into the script.
Chatting to Metro.co.uk, lead writer Laura Neal admitted she had a ‘lot of ridiculous ideas that, thank god, didn’t make the cut’.
‘Something I was really into, for a good long while, maybe three weeks, was Villanelle to be in charge of a winning pub quiz team,’ she laughed. ‘Like Villanelle gets really into pub quizzes.
‘It just tickled me the idea – I thought she’d be an excellent pub quiz player because she’s got such a great general knowledge, geography, languages, all of that.
‘And then we dropped it because it couldn’t give us a story for an entire season!’
We’ll be needing the extended cut pronto please, Laura.
With Killing Eve having a different lead writer each season, it means Sandra and Jodie modt likely have the best knowledge of their own characters – and Laura was keen to get their input.
‘They were very involved in this final season,’ she explained. ‘That’s how I wanted it to be. All of the writers have been in discussions with Sandra and Jodie and Fiona [Shaw] and Kim [Bodnia] from the very beginning – they’ve been fully looped into what we’ve been thinking and they had a massive part in shaping their final stories as well.
‘That’s been really useful as a writer to have those actors on hand because obviously they’ve lived in those characters for four seasons now. So they were fully involved.