season 4 is speeding towards its ending, with fans dying to know what will happen to ’s Eve Polastri and ’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.
‘Jodie had a lot of input in the early episodes, in terms of the vision that Villanelle sees, and even down to the aesthetic and the look of that character and that was really fun to discuss with her.’
She added of the major characters’ journeys: ‘The discussions about our main characters were mainly about what’s truthful for them at this moment in their journey and this moment in the show as a whole and what’s interesting? Is there any situation that we haven’t seen them in before? Are there any other characters we really want to see them with?
‘That’s not to promise no harm comes to any of our main characters, but it wasn’t our intention to go on a murderous rampage!’
Killing Eve returns Monday on BBC iPlayer.
