1. Eve Polastri is a fictional agent working for British intelligence, and the titular character of the novel and television series Killing Eve.
10 Facts About Eve Polastri
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Eve Polastri is a lead character in Luke Jennings' four-segment novella series, whose compilation forms his 2018 novel Codename Villanelle.
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Eve Polastri is an MI5 security operative whose job as "an intelligence agency grunt" once involved more paper pushing than intrigue, her intellectual curiosity going unrewarded and underemployed by her superiors.
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Eve Polastri is not as immune to luxury and the purely sensual things of life as she once thought.
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Eve Polastri has been described as a competent professional going through "a bizarre, uncontrollable awakening" and as an "awkward, smart, not entirely self-aware woman with an impressive mass of curly hair".
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Eve Polastri "remains bound to the notion of being right and doing right", and is much more down to earth and approachable than conventional crime-solver characters.
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Series creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge said that Polastri is an "Everywoman" to whom people can relate, wanting an easy life but craving an extraordinary one.
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Actor Sandra Oh remarked that Eve Polastri lacks super-spy skills and James Bond gadgets, but has good instincts and general sense, a head on her shoulders and determination.
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Eve Polastri is "Clarice Starling or Sherlock Holmes, but she's Lucy Ricardo or Selina Meyer".
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One commentator said that Eve Polastri changed, "moving closer and closer to Villanelle and her world" in Season 2.