I write about my biggest fears: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge says she draws her characters from her personal life but it is more about being in touch with her deepest fears.

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The creator and star of dark comedy Fleabag said she asks the question “what if” through the hit BBC Two show, which follows her title character, a 30-something woman and her misadventures with life, family and love.

“Of course Im drawing on really personal things and things that echo in real life, but I write about my biggest fears. I write about losing my best friend or losing my mum, or not communicating with my dad, or not getting on with his new partner, and all those things are my worst fears: whereas actually my mums alive and well, my best friend is alive and well and we have an unbelievable relationship, my relationship with both my siblings is incredible, I get on really well with my stepmother and my dad; but its the what if?'” Waller-Bridge said on How to Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast.

What troubles the writer is the speculation that a female screenwriter could only have drawn such lifelike characters from real life.

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