By Killing Eve star Jodie Comer may look pretty invincible when she’s acting, but she is surprisingly candid about her latest role, saying: “I started this process quite literally terrified.”
In climate change survival film The End We Start From, Comer plays a mother who navigates flooding and civil unrest – while trying to nurture her newborn baby.
It sounds like an impossible combination, but Comer evidently likes a challenge – she’s already garnered a slew of awards, including two Baftas, for her vastly different acting roles.
This film starts in London, where environmental disaster means Comer’s character and her partner flee their flooded home. They head for the safety of his parents’ house in the countryside.
But other people’s lawlessness, and the need for food and medicine, keep them on the move.
For Comer, the experience brought her into close contact with all the babies she had to work alongside..
In total, she worked with 15 infants, aged from eight weeks to young toddlers. “It was very eye-opening,” she says.
Strict on-set rules meant each child was only allowed to be part of a scene for 20 minutes at a time, hence why so many were needed.
