How Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge turned a favor for a friend into a women-behaving-badly Britcom that’s a cult hit on both sides of the Atlantic Emmys
currently streaming on Netflix, ASAP), Waller-Bridge traces the show’s origins to being peer-pressured into performing for a friend’s “storytelling” night in 2013. “It was basically stand-up comedy, which terrifies me,” she says. “But my friend kept saying, ‘Well, you’ll be sitting down, it’s completely different!’ Someone had dropped out last-minute, so I filled in as a favor.
Critical kudos and a West-End theatrical run followed; soon, Waller-Bridge found herself with a BBC deal and a chance to bring her self-destructive, sexually obsessed antiheroine to TV.
“Ah yes, the masturbating-to-Obama bit!” she exclaims, referring to a tone-setting scene in which Flea is caught en flagrante delecto with herself while watching a POTUS press conference. “That was in the play. Originally, she was looking for something to distract herself from having a bad wank so she turns on the news and, well…” She laughs. “I mean, it’s Obama, can you blame her?”
Since the show’s airing on both sides of the pond, Waller-Bridge says she’s been a little surprised by how “this little detour I took” has struck a nerve with a variety of viewers. The actor confesses that she’s now regularly approached byfans who’ve adopted the show’s flawed, fucked-up female character as a sort of next-gen Hanna Horvath.
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