![]() She has a chic, bouncy bob, cute clothes, and a sharp lip color that can read as polished or sexually inviting, depending on who’s admiring it. Part of that mission included making Fleabag visually put-together. “I was trying to think of the worst thing that she could do, and then try and make the audience love her anyway.” “But what if it was my fault?” she remembers thinking, trying to level up the concept for the show. The writer/actress was firm about making sure that Flea’s internal trauma was not caused by classic hallmarks “in stories about female damage, like, the day she was raped, or had an abortion.” Instead, her downward spiral is triggered by the death of Boo, an idea Waller-Bridge had when she imagined how she would feel if her own best friend, director Vicky Jones, happened to die. “There are people in the world who have fucked the wrong person.” Early in the show’s creation, she was constantly asked why Flea does what she does-a nesting doll of unnecessarily deep questions that boil down to a very simple answer, according to the show-runner: ”‘Cause people! Fucking! Do!” Waller-Bridge says. Waller-Bridge hesitates to over-intellectualize the show’s focus on sex. ![]()
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