Killing Eve showrunner Laura Neal and stars Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer break down the series finale

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"It was really difficult to find the best ending," Neal tells Elle. “The truth is we talked about loads. We were always discussing ‘What’s the truth of the endpoint of these characters journeys?’ If we look at where Eve and Villanelle began and we look at what’s happened to them across the four seasons, what’s the truth of the end point? It would have been easy for it to feel very maudlin, I think, or to go completely the other direction and make it feel too funny. So striking the right balance between the two of them felt really important.” Oh adds of the ending: “I think it’s true to this show. As an audience you want to be satisfied. You want to know. Like, ‘I want to be satisfied. I want it tied up in a bow. I want to understand it.’ But that’s not it.” On filming the final season, Comer says: "There was something about finishing on that final shot of her that was actually perfect in a way. But it was weird. It was really weird! What was great was Sandra and I were together for the whole of that last week, so we got to experience that together with the crew.” 

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• Killing Eve producers wanted the ending to be "the most truthful for what we knew about those characters": "Once we knew that we were going to finish off the series in Season 4 — because we'd been thinking about it for a while — and then to go, 'Yeah, we're going to do this. We're going to do this properly,' there were loads of discussions about how you end it and how you honor four seasons of their relationship, and (how) you also honor the new arc for season 4," says executive producer Sally Woodward Gentle. "Ultimately, what we wanted to do was something that felt the most truthful for what we knew about those characters and what we felt the journey that they'd been on through Season 4." What were Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer's reaction? "Since we knew this season would be our last, coming up with the ending was a collaborative process across all teams, including our cast," says Gentle.
• Killing Eve final moment had been set in stone for a while: "We sort of knew what was going to happen quite early on, but we were open to something else sort of declaring itself, but it never really changed," explains Gentle.
• Killing Eve showrunner Laura Neal says the finale moment "felt right to us"