When it comes British cinema, 2024 couldn’t have got off to much more of a flying start than with the release of The End We Start From. It’s been adapted from the Megan Hunter novel by Alice Birch (who has written for Succession and Normal People). It’s directed by British director Mahalia Belo (who won a Bafta for her TV movie Ellen), and stars Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Katherine Waterson and Jodie Comer. Waterson and Comer were nominated for best lead and best supporting performances at last month’s British independent film awards.
In the film, a mother – played by Comer – and her baby abandon London after the capital suffers an epic flood. If you’re in any way a fan of Comer, you know she’s going to be great.
Maybe you became a Comer aficionado with her role as chameleonic Russian assassin Villanelle from four series of the BBC’s Killing Eve, for which she won an Emmy and a Bafta. Maybe you saw her care for Stephen Graham in 2021 Channel 4 one-off drama, Help. Maybe you became a Comer devotee when you saw her as computer programmer Millie, in 2021’s heavily Truman Show-influenced Free Guy opposite Ryan Reynolds and fell in love with her cover version of Fantasy by Mariah Carey, or as French noblewoman Marguerite de Carrouges opposite Adam Driver and Matt Damon in Ridley Scott’s 2021 The Last Duel. Or maybe you got the Comer crush when she played Daisy Ridley’s mother in a flashback sequence in Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, or in her one-woman West End show Prima Facie in 2022, where the Guardian said: “Comer manages to infuse breathtaking emotional drama in every last word.”
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Let us know what you’d like to ask Comer in the comments below by 12pm GMT on Monday 8 January, and we’ll print her answers in Film & Music later this month.
