According to the show's creator, that's exactly why she got the role. According to Sandra Oh herself, that's why she should have gotten it.

A star with action-role experience wouldn't have suited because, according to series creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the appeal of the Eve character is that she's an unlikely super-spy.

"She's a woman who is out there protecting people and hunting somebody, but when there's a bang in her house, she runs upstairs and hides," she told Variety magazine. "There is something much more human and relatable about that."

Meanwhile, Oh said in an interview with Vanity Fair that when she was approached about joining the cast, she assumed it would be a supporting role as a receptionist or doctor -- the typical "Asian role," she said.

She admitted it's always nice to just receive a part over the phone without an audition, "but in another way, it took 30 years to get this call."

In fact, the producers wanted Oh so badly they rewrote the books. "Killing Eve" is based on a series of novels by Luke Jennings, and in those books Eve is white (she's also British, while Oh, born in Canada, plays her as American).

Ultimately, that suited Jennings just fine. "As soon as Sandra arrived and started rehearsing, she was just a perfect Eve. It sort of became impossible to think of her in any other way."

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