![]() ![]() She first heard about the project from Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, who broached the idea at the behest of Ford, who-would you believe?-is a huge Fleabag fan. “It’s amazing to feel the fandom that hard,” she says now. Wearing a glamorous silver lamé top and sleek black suit, she introduced a clip from Dial of Destiny to 4,500 delirious fans in various states of cosplay. It gets more and more surreal.”Ī day earlier, I’d watched Waller-Bridge take the stage at a Star Wars Celebration event. “And then years pass, pandemics happen, you do a Star Wars, you do an Indiana Jones. “ Fleabag changed my career, and then suddenly you’re so in the moment,” says Waller-Bridge. She’s chatting in a voice that’s familiar and confiding, but then it’s part of her genius that so many fans already feel like she knows us in all of our awkward, oddball singularity. ![]() The show’s mastermind is wearing a red sweater and jeans, her short brown hair nipped back with hairpins. There’s no television screen between us now. Suddenly, I am on the other side of the fourth wall-the one that Waller-Bridge so archly shatters in Fleabag when she speaks directly through the screen, using the viewer as a diversion from her sexual misadventures, her café business, and her fumbling familial interactions. ![]() “If you need me to come with you…” she says, nodding toward the loo with impish kindness. I hadn’t taken into account the zipper down the back of my version and the impossibility of getting it down every time I have to pee, but Waller-Bridge is two steps ahead. She’s offering to extricate me from the one-piece outfit I bought on impulse, inspired by the silky jumpsuit she made famous in Fleabag. “This is what we’re for, to zip each other’s jumpsuits up,” she says. I n the wisteria-covered garden of a London pub, Phoebe Waller-Bridge comes to my rescue. ![]()
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