Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 420th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood

reporters awards podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is an Emmy and BAFTA award-winning and

Golden Globe and SAG award-nominated English actress who is one of the most talented and

exciting young performers in the business.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge has called her a once in a generation actress, Matt Damon has said

she's truly incredible.

Directors are going to be beating down her door because she's a generational talent.

And Sean Levy has said, it's seriously something that doesn't happen except maybe every

10 years where a new actor arrives and doesn't feel like anyone you've seen before.

Jody Comer

Best known for playing the charismatic psychopath Villanelle opposite Sandra O's Eve on the BBC

America drama series Killing Eve for which she became the youngest ever winner of the

best actress in a drama series Emmy in 2019 at the age of just 26.

Comer is coming off a pack 2021 in which she played her first lead in a big studio Hollywood

film, Levy's video game adaptation free guy, in which she received widespread acclaim

for her portrayal of a COVID era nursing home worker on the limited series Help, which

aired on Channel 4 in Britain and will soon be available on Acorn TV in the US.

And in which she was widely lauded for her turn as a 14th century woman who dares to

accuse a man of rape in Ridley Scott's film The Last Dual, a performance for which she

is now garnering best actress Oscar Buzz.

Over the course of our conversation, the 28-year-old and I discussed her accidental path

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