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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