Luke Jennings is the author of the memoir Blood Knots, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson and William Hill prizes, and of several novels, including the Booker Prize-nominated Atlantic. His previous book Codename Villanelle is the basis for BBC America’s new TV series Killing Eve starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer. The 1999 film is terrible, but Milla Jovovich strikes a pleasingly deranged note and looks fantastic in armor. Villanelle’s situation has parallels with that of Nikita, played by Anne Parillaud in Luc Besson’s 1990 film.īut the Besson heroine Villanelle more closely resembles is the gender-bending Joan of Arc. Scammed into auditioning for a non-existent movie, Asami takes eye-poppingly violent revenge on the men who have objectified her. Related: Why We’re So Obsessed With KILLING EVEĮihi Shiina as Asami in Takashi Miike’s ‘Audition’ (1999). Given Hollywood’s predilection for stereotyped portraits of women, Bridget’s bone-dry wit and sociopathic indifference to others are a rare treat. Linda Fiorentino’s viciously manipulative Bridget in ‘The Last Seduction,’ John Dahl’s 1994 neo-noir thriller. Glenn Close’s performance in Stephen Frears’s 1988 film adaptation does not disappoint. As precise a portrait of a psychopath as any in literature. Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangéreuses by Choderlos de Laclos (1782). Lewis was a teenage show-jumper, and this tale of sex, power and addiction on the US equestrian circuit is as brilliant as it’s chilling. Tory, the charismatic but damaged object of the female narrator’s desire in Heather Lewis’s 1994 novel House Rules. But when you meet them, you can’t look away. Like Villanelle, they’re not exactly role models. Here are five female antagonists who have struck a chord with me, and may well have left their mark on Villanelle. Having said that, I’ve always been fascinated by anarchic women in literature and cinema.
Which is another way of saying that I really don’t know.
I’ve often been asked where Villanelle, the assassin of the Killing Eve series, ‘came from,’ and the only true answer I can give is that she came from my imagination.
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