“We are sitting in a Soho attic office, the walls of which PhoebeWallerBridge has quickly scrubbed off notes detailing season two of her award-winning sitcom Fleabag. All that is left is a sharp little envelope on the table, labelled ‘Jokes’.”
Why does this speak to us today? Why does Waller-Bridge’s work, with its sex and fury and jokes about death, ring so clearly for her international audience, gaining her an embarrassment of awards and accolades? The answer, or part of it anyway, is folded away in the envelope on the table. Writing series two, she has been thinking a lot about female rage.
“It feels like, recently, a lot of female anger has been unleashed. Articulated anger. Which is exciting for me because I’ve always found female rage very appealing.” Now aged 32, Waller-Bridge was in her third year at RADA when she ranted to a director that she didn’t want to play any more “passive princess parts”.
Soon after, he wrote her the part of an angry young woman. “He said, ‘It’s because you have the gift of rage.’ I realised that’s what I’m always looking for, because I don’t think it necessarily has to be a negative thing. I think rage can be something that motivates and galvanises and changes things, and I think that’s what’s happening now.” While anger stews, she says, rage is active: “It has a forward motion to it.
Luckily, then, for a woman inspired by rage, she is writing in a time that vibrates with it, when years of insults, forced intimacies and hidden abuse are finally being discussed. Nowhere more noisily than in her own industry where, post-Weinstein, daily news of historical harassment seems to emerge. The worlds Waller-Bridge writes are populated with women who are dealing with their own furies, whether focused inwards or out.
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