Jodie Comer Reveals the Moment She Knew Killing Eve Had Become a Phenomenon

Jodie Comer took home an Emmy and a BAFTA for Killing Eve, but industry trophies weren’t what convinced her the series had genuinely taken over the world.

Instead of checking ratings charts or celebrity shoutouts, Comer knew Villanelle had truly broken into the mainstream the second October rolled around, and streets everywhere filled up with replicas of her iconic pink dress.

The Halloween Moment That Changed Everything for Jodie Comer

Speaking during an appearance on the Radio Hits podcast, Comer was asked when she first realized the show had become a genuine phenomenon.

“Oh my god, I think a big moment was when people were dressing up as her for Halloween,” she replied. “I was like, this is mad that it had kind of infiltrated its way into Halloween. I love that. It’s the highest honor.”

Villanelle, the assassin Comer played across four seasons, became a full-blown fashion moment almost immediately after the show premiered, thanks largely to costume designer Phoebe de Gaye’s now-iconic pink Molly Goddard dress paired with black Balenciaga boots.

That single look broke the internet after airing and eventually landed in a BAFTA exhibition alongside other pieces from the series. Comer watched that dress spawn an entire subculture of imitators once October rolled around.

“The first year it was the Molly Goddard, and then some people did the pajama look from season 2, and I was like, I respect that,” she added.

The pajama reference points to another widely discussed Villanelle look: a skin-tight, comic-book-print two-piece Villanelle takes from Gabriel, an orphaned teenage boy in the hospital bed next to her, so she can slip out undetected while recovering from a stab wound in the season two premiere. Comer recalled the surreal experience of actually filming in the getup.

“I remember being on set in like age 12 boys’ pajamas and with a pair of Crocs, and I was like, what is going on?”

Killing Eve ran for four seasons and turned Comer into a household name, earning her a BAFTA and an Emmy along the way. Nearly a decade after the show first made its way into costume shops, Villanelle’s wardrobe remains one of the most referenced in television history.