Killing Eve star Kim Bodnia was so blown away by Jodie Comer's acting powers in season 4, it resulted in his favourite sequence in the whole show.

The 56-year-old is better known as Konstantin Vasiliev, Villanelle's twinkly-eyed handler, and he sat down for a catch up with Radio Times ahead of the thriller's grand return this weekend.

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"There's many moments where we have been acting together where we have surprised each other," he told the publication of his and Comer's dynamic.

"And there is a moment in this season where Jodie [as Villanelle] is doing some payback time [on Konstantin]... There is a scene in this season where Villanelle is together with Konstantin, and I really love that scene, and it will remind me of the whole season, the whole period of Killing Eve."

The Danish actor went on to elaborate: "You never know what exactly where Villanelle is. And so she made a journey for me in that scene, where she [was] playing with my feelings – Konstantin's feelings and Kim's feelings – because she knows I have this feeling for her as a character and as a person, that I really love her like a daughter, so she was just playing with my feelings in that scene, with something that was not expected.

jodie comer as villanelle in killing eve season 3, episode 5
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"She did it and made me get a reaction that just came out of me because I didn't know it was coming in that scene, you know?

"So to play with your fear – maybe that's what daughters do with their fathers, with the father's feelings, and see [whether you] can make him cry, can you make him laugh. And she did that."

They don't hand out Primetime Emmy Awards to just any old chump, after all.

Killing Eve season 4 premiered February 27 on BBC America in the US and premiers on February 28 via BBC iPlayer in the UK.