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Evening Standard
India Block

Day of the Jackal star Úrsula Corberó: 'After Money Heist everybody thinks I'm a badass'

Given that Úrsula Corberó spent four years wielding guns in the smash-hit Netflix crime drama Money Heist, you’d think she might have some tips for Eddie Redmayne, her co-star in new TV thriller The Day of the Jackal.

Redmayne, playing against type as a cold-blooded assassin, has been vocal about the amount of training his role required. But Corberó, 35, was just pleased she didn’t have to pull the trigger this time. “When I read the script, I felt very lucky that I was not the one handling the gun,” she says. “After Money Heist, everybody thinks that I’m a superhero, a badass woman.”

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