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Fleabag: Phoebe Waller-Bridge hits back at 'posh' criticism | Fleabag: Phoebe Waller-Bridge hits back at 'posh' criticism |
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It's fair to say Phoebe Waller-Bridge is having an excellent year professionally. | It's fair to say Phoebe Waller-Bridge is having an excellent year professionally. |
She's helping to write the next Bond movie, has seen Killing Eve become a huge international success, and had a triumphant final series of Fleabag. | She's helping to write the next Bond movie, has seen Killing Eve become a huge international success, and had a triumphant final series of Fleabag. |
It was almost universally praised by critics and audiences. | It was almost universally praised by critics and audiences. |
The only hint of negativity was that it was all... how best to say it? A bit, well... posh. | The only hint of negativity was that it was all... how best to say it? A bit, well... posh. |
The Guardian's reviewer certainly felt the air of wealth and privilege made the show "a little less lovable". | |
Phoebe Waller-Bridge admits that she was "perfectly set up to have success in the world". | Phoebe Waller-Bridge admits that she was "perfectly set up to have success in the world". |
She was a guest on the podcast How to Fail with Elizabeth Day, revealing she has never pretended she's "not from a privileged position". | She was a guest on the podcast How to Fail with Elizabeth Day, revealing she has never pretended she's "not from a privileged position". |
"I really know that I am. I mean, my God." | "I really know that I am. I mean, my God." |
She went to private schools, lived in a lovely bit of London and had a supportive family and agrees it's "absolutely, probably true that loads of people don't have the the same opportunities" as her. | She went to private schools, lived in a lovely bit of London and had a supportive family and agrees it's "absolutely, probably true that loads of people don't have the the same opportunities" as her. |
"If that is where it comes from, then I am really sympathetic to that feeling." | "If that is where it comes from, then I am really sympathetic to that feeling." |
But she is less impressed when people criticise her actual work because she's had a lucky start in life. | But she is less impressed when people criticise her actual work because she's had a lucky start in life. |
"To criticise a story on the basis of where the author had come from, or how privileged the author is, undermines the story. | "To criticise a story on the basis of where the author had come from, or how privileged the author is, undermines the story. |
"It's not like my privilege created Fleabag. I created Fleabag, but from a point of place in my life where I was able to sit and write." | "It's not like my privilege created Fleabag. I created Fleabag, but from a point of place in my life where I was able to sit and write." |
She thinks it is largely down to getting the right support. | She thinks it is largely down to getting the right support. |
She explains: "I like to think that whatever life I'd lived, wherever I'd been born or brought up, I would still have written if I had been given the encouragement. | She explains: "I like to think that whatever life I'd lived, wherever I'd been born or brought up, I would still have written if I had been given the encouragement. |
"That's the thing that I care about, encouraging people to do it." | "That's the thing that I care about, encouraging people to do it." |
Phoebe Waller-Bridge also disagrees that the story is "just for posh girls". | Phoebe Waller-Bridge also disagrees that the story is "just for posh girls". |
She says she was very aware that it was told "through the prism of a very middle class family" but says she was "using them to tell a story that was emotional." | She says she was very aware that it was told "through the prism of a very middle class family" but says she was "using them to tell a story that was emotional." |
"People were sending me photos of tweets, with one guy saying 'I'm a disabled 42-year-old man living in Hull and I am Fleabag'. | |
She didn't have quite so much to say about her latest job - as part of the writing team for the new Bond film. | She didn't have quite so much to say about her latest job - as part of the writing team for the new Bond film. |
There were no plot hints but she's previously said she's trying to make the Bond girls "feel like real people". | |
In fact, the only thing she did reveal was that she had a "total freak-out" about an "amazing" 007 water bottle given out to cast and crew. | In fact, the only thing she did reveal was that she had a "total freak-out" about an "amazing" 007 water bottle given out to cast and crew. |
Not the juiciest Bond gossip but good to know that Q Branch is on the case with cutting out disposable plastic. | Not the juiciest Bond gossip but good to know that Q Branch is on the case with cutting out disposable plastic. |
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