The World Championships gold medal winner and Emmy winning Killing Eve star attended the same Catholic girls' school in Liverpool and are still close pals today
One is known for being one of TV’s most ruthless assassins and Hollywood star - the other could be on course for a medal at the Paris Olympic Games .
Meanwhile, Katarina is gearing up for the biggest event of her life as she goes for gold in Paris. After an injury-hit few years, the heptathlon star won her first gold medal since 2019 at last year’s World Championships in Budapest. And Comer was among the first people to congratulate her pal with a brief but poignant message on Instagram. "When you give everything to a thing. We love you,” wrote Comer, 31, who will star in the upcoming film 28 Years Later, directed by Danny Boyle.
“We’ve got a girls’ group chat,” Jodie explains. “It’s called ‘Hoes in Different Area Codes’ because we are never in the same place at the same time… So that’s always very lively!” While Jodie was reportedly paid a relatively small £350,000 in the first series of Killing Eve – £43,000 an episode – her earning power is vastly higher now.
They have also shared a professional platform when they were both honoured at the Remarkable Women Awards in London in 2019. “It is a huge honour to receive this award and be included with such inspiring women, one of them being my best friend Katarina Johnson-Thompson!” beamed Jodie, who won Entertainer of the Year while her friend won Sports Star of the Year. “I’m really overwhelmed and happy that we all get to be here tonight to celebrate each other’s success.
And her breakthrough came in Doctor Foster when she played “the other woman”, Kate, in 2015. She shunned drama school and has no formal training. “I got an A* in my practical drama and I got a U in my written,” she admitted. “You know people who would go home, do their homework, revise? It wasn’t my vibe.”
Then at the 2015 world championships in Beijing, she fouled three times in the long jump when she was favourite to win – falling to 28th place. But finally, just as Jodie’s star is rising high, her own is too. She won gold in the heptathlon at the Commonwealth Games and silver at the European Championships in 2018 with a personal best of 6,759.
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