The World According to Phoebe Waller-Bridge #USVogue
On her inspirations: “I get asked who inspired me as writers, and I realized I’d always been slightly embarrassed to admit it, because it seems so obvious, but, like, the Greek plays! Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare—all the ones you think you can’t say because they’re great. I’m now owning that.”
On what she wants to do next: “I feel like I might scale up a bit. I’ll scale up in terms of gradually getting bigger with my themes and stuff, and I feel maybe I want to start thinking more politically, more globally. I don’t know, but I can feel something bubbling.”
On not wanting to do a second season of Fleabag: “It’s so hard because you change. You’re trying to write authentically all the time. You have to write that change, and coming into the second season, it was like, you have to, you know, inverted commas, ‘give the people what they want.’”
On auditioning for Downton Abbey “It was a really beautiful scene in a church; there’s a little clue. And I went in and I gave this really heartfelt audition, and when I finished, they were like, ‘We had no idea she was so f—ing hilarious!’ I had really given myself, and they’re like, ‘Oh, yeah, you’re not right.’”
On her regrets. “I can’t armpit fart and I can’t fake burp, and I think that’s a tragedy.”
Read more here at Vogue.
