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"It felt like such a risk. Just to say the things that I really do women say privately to each other. Um, and that resonated. And then getting the pilot on Amazon coming on board. I mean every single element of it.

But really when I first wrote her, I was writing all the things that felt sort of dangerous to say and I need I can only really give that to myself. Didn't want to give that to anyone else in case of a bomb. And so I think it was partly that.

But also I had this like I felt when I was in my mid to late twenties when I first read the play and it came out of a need to play someone who was complex and weird and have these multiple layers and have a persona and then have somebody to fall underneath all that complexity. But it also was funny and dark and sexually candid. All of those things are things I desperately wanted to be. So that's kind of where it was born out of.

I did this associate slightly when I'm writing. I want to shoot myself. And I'm writing it. All right, things dangerous and beautiful Challenge to make me want to play it.

We give a brief to the writers, which was to Challenge one thing in the audience and make an audience fall in love with the character making audience forgive the character of a heinous crime, or find something that makes the audience laugh. And it makes the audience feel sick for laughing. And you should do this monthly. And I learned so much there about how to surprise your audience. I only ever want to be surprised in a truthful way, not the kind of like, but I wanna be surprised. As much as people surprise me, if people surprise each other all the time.

I mean do it for a start. Even if you discover that you don't enjoy doing it, or if you're not, if you don't feel good today or if it doesn't go down, if you're just not good. But I think the strike is there something about writing that is, you learn so much about character from writing. And I know a lot of actors like will write themselves letters from their characters and things like that before they actually and perform. And i've never been that kind of active but because I want to write as well. But I can see that thing once you're actually writing things down and writing dialogue down, you learn so much more than rely on yourself for yourself to write something truthful that you think. And it feels kind of dangerous because writing a diary that you know no one's looking. As if you are not afraid. Um, and the same goes for writing act like you're not afraid, just won't allow it. It's like if someone just said there's no reason to be afraid to just go for it. And that was the line that I constantly say to myself.

I took things out a lot. So I really need collaborators. And through this whole process, finding your people, finding your video and an amazing story producer.

People are only interested in really, really truthful human stories. And I think if you can be find people you trust so much that can go on sometimes I feel like this is the case. And other people might think I'm insane for thinking that. So I think if you can find those people, you can say those things. And dare you to write it down. "

—— Phoebe Waller Bridge