Jodie Comer recalls being starstruck three times, and this trio, it’s fair to say, are a rum bunch: Helen Mirren, Trevor McDonald and the bloke who played Sinbad in Brookside. Now, you might find it easy to rank these, but the 26-year-old breakout star of last year’s breakout hit, the comic thriller Killing Eve, isn’t so sure. After all, spotting Sinbad was a big deal for the young Comer, who is a Scouser to the core; and she didn’t even dare go up to the ITN news legend when she spotted him at the Baftas. “Do you know what I mean?” she says in her broad Liverpool accent. “It’s not every day you see Trevor McDonald!”

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