Maya Rudolph Reveals She Was Offered Title Role in ‘Killing Eve’ and Turned It Down

Maya Rudolph has played numerous iconic characters, from Donatella Versace to Vice President Kamala Harris.

But there was a time when Rudolph might have played Eve Polastri, the role immortalized by Sandra Oh in “Killing Eve.”In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter this week, released in anticipation of Rudolph’s new Apple TV+ series “Loot,” Rudolph talks about roles she’s turned down.

One was the title role in the BBC dark comedy created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

Rudolph said she was offered the role and would have immediately done it.

“But there was no way I was about to move to Europe for months.

Like, how?” Rudolph said in the interview.The role of Eve would eventually go to Oh who would go on to win a Golden Globe for playing the character in 2019.

Oh would be nominated three times for her performance at the Primetime Emmy awards though she never won.

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