If you missed it, here's our 2016 interview with Phoebe Waller-Bridge on being a genius and the first season of Fleabag Emmys
“I really wanted to play a character like Fleabag. Sort of acerbic and dry and unapologetic and just really naughty,” she tells me on the roof of the Jezebel office. Which is why, when she was invited to do a 10-minute storytelling spot several years ago, she decided to “practice what I had been preaching” and create a character worthy of playing. And so, Fleabag was born.
Her labor of love was certainly worth it. Not only has Waller-Bridge created a critically lauded show, but she’s also brought to life a character that a certain subset of women—those of us who are smart and funny, but also emotionally complicated in ways that aren’t always flattering—can relate to... sometimes a littleBut it’s that audience discomfort that Waller-Bridge loves.
“Looking out from stage at the audience while they’re laughing is a really wonderful experience,” she says. “They’re in this vulnerable emotional and physical position with their heads thrown back, which is exactly when I want to...” [Here, she pantomimes a quick shank to the gut.]Fleabag has been receiving. It’s funny in a laugh-out-loud way with Waller-Bridge exhibiting exquisite comedic timing in her asides to the audience. But, at the same time, it’s also inexorably linked with grief, loneliness, and pain—the portrait of a woman who’s suffered extreme loss and made extreme mistakes, but is attempting to move on in spite of all that.
“I don’t get when people call Fleabag unlikable,” Waller-Bridge says as I walk her out of the building. “I think she’s very likable. She’s just...”
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