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Surrane mentioned Anne being gay within the first five minutes of the conversation, meanwhile, Jodie went the whole hour without bringing it up. However, I don't think this is necessarily Jodie's fault and I think we should address how the KE team shy away from labeling it as gay
In all the interviews no one has ever actually used the word gay or lesbian or queer when referring the relationship between Eve and Villanelle, and they haven't used the word kiss or even address it beyond "The Bus Scene"
The show is marketed is explicitly queer, putting things up like this, which isn't even hinting at a relationship but straight up stating one. So if Killing Eve markets itself as queer why do they refuse to say the words and address it in interviews?
In ads we get explicit queerness, in the show we get explicit queerness (the kiss, the ballroom scene, I think about you all the time, etc.), yet in interviews, they NEVER talk about it. The most we get is an off-handed comment that doesn't even address Eve and V's relationship
beyond them saying it's complicated or it's tense. The issue isn't the actresses, the issue is clearly the Killing Eve PR team. There's never any hint of a question about it being a gay show, and neither Sandar nor Jodie has ever used the word gay.
My issue with this is it's clearly a way to keep straight audiences from feeling too isolated, they don't want to have to say this is a queer show because then straight people might not want to watch. So while making sure they don't alienate the straight audience
they alienate the queer audience by refusing to label it as such. It's seriously problematic to have such a gay show, about the relationship between two women who are very clearly in love (or attracted to each other) while refusing to ever voice that in interviews.
What the team doesn't understand (I'm assuming) is that by not saying they are gay and they are attracted to each other they are leaving it up for interpretation (for the straights) about how queer their relationship actually is.
By the way we've seen straight people react to the kiss alone, calling it a distraction tactic, or that Eve did it because she had to, or any reason beyond Eve doing it due to her attraction to Villanelle and her being queer, it's obvious they don't see the show as we do
anyway, I don't really know how to end this beyond I think it's clear that in interviews they shy away from labeling Eve and V's relationship and shy away from the queerness that the show focuses on, because at the end of the day like PWB said it's about those two women and how
everything that happens is for them to be alone together, the show at its heart is about them and I just think it's really shitty and unfair of the KE team to never actually acknowledge that in interviews the way it deserves to be
