I can't deny 'Fleabag''s a very personal piece, but it's not autobiographical.
There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing.
I'll never get bored of seeing flawed women on the screen.
I'd like to think Fleabag's honesty makes her heroic in spite of her actions.
However much people want to politicize every movement of a controversial woman in life or on the screen, we just have to keep being personal and truthful, or we will explode.
Every single performance of 'Fleabag,' I would learn so much from the audience reaction or how you could change it all the time, and I loved that sense that the performance is ever-growing and changing and could be affected by the audience.
I just love any kind of language that can change the energy in a room. There are no limits for me, as long as it feels like it's being used in a particular way to garner or elicit a very particular reaction so that you can then use that reaction later for something else.
I think, a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable or having a really broken family.
I'd go so far as to say I was bullied into writing, but sometimes you need that.
I think it's important that culture is this ongoing thing that needs to be nurtured, because there is no such thing as a quick, arty fix.
I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.
