English actress Jodie Comer has travelled the world portraying characters that defy categorization, yet she never abandons her home comforts while on the road preparing for her next award-winning performance.
Comer, 33, tells Harper's Bazaar magazine that a country pub feels as familiar to her as the stage or screen, and whenever possible, she travels by car carrying jars of her preferred ingredients to cook at every opportunity.
"My dream, and I'm manifesting this, is to have a space where I can just be in my underwear, gardening," the Liverpool-born performer said.
Proving her theatre credentials at the first opportunity in 2022, Comer won a Tony Award for her West End performance as Tessa in Australian playwright Suzie Miller's one-woman show Prima Facie.
However, fans might have first warmed to her as the cold, charismatic assassin Villanelle in the TV drama Killing Eve.
She was hard to miss in films including The Last Duel alongside Matt Damon and Adam Driver, Free Guy with Ryan Reynolds, major franchises such as Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later with Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
Despite the character's intentional lack of emotions, Comer admits she has never struggled to summon them.
"My emotions were very accessible to me at such a young age. I remember my drama teacher saying, 'What you have is amazing, but you can't be crying before you've even started,'" she says.
"All this stuff was inside me and I didn't quite know what to do with it."
She will soon star in the upcoming action film The Death of Robin Hood alongside Hugh Jackman.
