Jodie Comer has said that she was once approached by “strange men” who had followed to an airport in the middle of the night, while she was on a press tour.

The Killing Eve actress has become a global star since playing psychopathic killer Villanelle in the hit drama series and in a new interview, she discusses the effects fame has had on her life. 

She tells the Sunday Times Culture magazine: “Do you know what? It’s not a drastic change, but there’s definitely been a shift.”

However, Jodie then recalls the “really weird experience” which took place when she was in America and about to catch a flight in the early hours of the morning.

“I got to the airport, it must have been half two, and there were men waiting for me to sign things,” she said. “They’d been following us around doing press during the week. Whoa.

“When does it become normal for strange men to be waiting for you at the airport?”

Jodie previously revealed that a female fan once asked her to strangle her because of her violent character in the hit drama series, in which she stars alongside Sandra Oh.

She’s also said that it is perhaps because of Villanelle that she has “zero” love life.

“I don’t know if it’s particularly because I’ve played a psychopath,” she added.

“I really don’t get approached at all. Which is fine. I’m never in one place long enough.”

Jodie, also known for roles in Doctor Foster, My Mad Fat Diary and The White Princess, has won global acclaim since Killing Eve hit screens last year.

The darkly comic cat-and-mouse crime drama, penned by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, sees Sandra Oh play MI5 operative Eve Polastri, who becomes obsessed with Jodie’s psychopathic killer.

The second series of Killing Eve is currently airing in America, and will come to UK screens in June.