ButFleabagis also getting a different sort of resurrection this spring.
PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE: It hasn’t at all!
I’ve been a real purist about it.
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It’s the originalFleabag.
I’m going to check to see how those land in previews.
People love pretending to be sophisticated so maybe you’ll be okay.
These are not sophisticated idioms though!
Want to do a quick test on me?
What are some of the most British words in the show?
I don’t know!
There are a couple of British geography jokes that aren’t going to work.
There’s a joke about a bap?
Do you know what a bap is?
Like…. a bread roll?
Did you always plan on making a second season of theFleabagtelevision show?
Oh my god, on the contrary, I was completely determined not to.
But then the character never quite left me.
And that’s kind of what happened with her.
So that was my justification.
Speaking of resolutions, the first season ofCrashingended with a big cliffhanger.
Are we going to get any more of that?
No, we’re not, unfortunately!
Even though it ends on a cliffhanger, it still feels like there was resolution though.
Did you have an idea for where you wanted the characters to go next?
I’m pretty instinctive about it.
I have an instinct.
But the giant love triangle, I sort of feel like I don’t know!
The stage version ofFleabagis a one-woman show, just you alone on the stage.
From a physical point of view, how do you prepare to be on stage performing for that long?
It’s funny, because I don’t really exert myself that much in the show.
I think it’s more of a focus.
I don’t know how I prepare.
So it should feel like an ever changing energy in the room.
I feed off the audience a lot.
They give me a lot.
How do you find living in New York?
Oh my god, I love it so much.
I feel like it’s like a second home.
I’ve always just loved the city so much.
I don’t know, there’s just something about it.
And the people are just so upfront and cool and everyone is moving at such a great pace.
It really gives me something.
InFleabag,it was a drama that was disguised as a comedy.
And inKilling EveI feel like it was very much a drama that had these little comedic surprises in it.
You’re such a prolific writer in so many different genres.
When you sit down to a blank page, how do you decide what you want to create?
Like, “Would this be cool?
Would I want to watch this?”
Really as simple as that.
