Sandra Oh Reveals 'Killing Eve's Series Finale Almost Had A Different Ending

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Sandra Oh is weighing in on the series finale of Killing Eve. Airing last month, the final moments of the hit BBC America series divided fans and even the author of the book trilogy series, Luke Jennings.

Now, Sandra is revealing that the ending actually had a different ending planned. Click inside to read more… While it’s not what fans want to hear, Sandra told Deadline says that it was was either going to be Villanelle, or Eve, who would’ve been killed at the end.

She recalled that she and season four lead writer Laura Neal “were chatting about how we were going to end this. I was like, ‘You should kill my character.’ I thought that would be the strongest and the most interesting” ending. Sandra added that she was feeling, “emotionally, it was the right place of where I was at…Eve was starting to get into, like, a nihilistic place, and we’re like, ‘Let’s just continue that line and go straight into it.’” However, it was all changed because of the pandemic. “They came to me, and they said, ‘We can’t do it.

We need to change it…Eve needs to live.’” As Oh points out, “Eve is the way into this world. She’s our everywoman. So it’s kind of really super depressing if she dies.”