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Quick Answers w/Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Quick Answers w/Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Great, straight forward answers. My favorite is when asked, “What have you resolved to never do?”
“Who am I?”
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"Killing Eve, 1x01" Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Around 33 minutes into episode one of season one, Eve is en route to talk to her sole surviving witness when she decides to pop into the restroom quickly first. While Eve is focused on her reflection in the mirror, Villanelle— the lead female assassin of the show— emerges from one of the stalls and stares directly and intensely at Eve for almost ten full seconds before Eve notices and reacts. With a puzzled and concerned expression on her face, Eve asks her, “Are you all right?” What’s interesting about this interaction is that while the show is making a point about how women are rarely thought of as dangerous, let alone murderous, I believe it is actually gender presentation that ultimately affects one’s conception of whether a woman is seen as harmless by default; in other words, I believe a nonnormative woman’s gender presentation may undermine this assumption of females’ inherent innocence. Villanelle is not only traditionally feminine in appearance but utterly beautiful and striking. Had she presented herself as a stereotypical masculine butch lesbian, however, I doubt Eve would have remained so unphased by her severe gaze coupled with her silent dismissal of Eve’s question. Perhaps a butch lesbian would not invite automatic suspicion, but I would argue that her capacity for crime, violence, or even mere indecency is seen as significantly higher— compared to a feminine woman like Villanelle, her license to behave abnormally without eliciting an immediate negative reaction is limited at best. Even if unintentionally, the show is asking the audience to contemplate what it is about a person that deems them predatory, or at the very least, potentially so. Is it really about sex and the female-male binary, or is it about gender presentation and the conflation of masculinity with aggression and femininity with weakness and morality? To again employ the contrasting example of a stereotypical butch lesbian, I am not suggesting here that Eve would have jumped to the conclusion that the stranger in the bathroom was the assassin she was after. I am merely suggesting that when it comes to female criminals, stereotypical or hyper-femininity can be worn as a cloak to disguise immorality or predaciousness in a way that nonnormative gender presentation likely cannot be as it is already seen as “other” and different.
- Avery
