In a new Vogue profile of Fleabag writer, creator, and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the author and the artist wander Central Park in search of a boathouse. The setup of the piece feels a bit precious and tony—Waller-Bridge is described as a “larks-and-diversions person” who enjoyed The Joker, was raised by a venture capitalist-turned-photographer, and is related to baronets. But like the upper-middle-class character Waller-Bridge plays in Fleabag, Waller-Bridge, the person, still seems incredibly relatable, even though we have nothing in common.
Saturday Night Live“Just about the abortion laws, the kind of stuff you can’t get your head around. The fact that the world has gone backward in this way, and actually in some frightening sense, in so many ways, women have a louder voice, are more empowered these days, and then in these other really insidious ways, blatant ways, we’re being marginalized again.
How do you fight that? Because if you rant and rave, if you try and make a noise, you’ll be labeled noisy. You have to be careful of that. You have to find ways to protest. I’d really like to write something about that. I don’t know what it is yet.”she avoided the jokes because she was worried about going for shock value without saying anything honest: “Sometimes you feel it’s braver to say something outrageous, and it’s not always.
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