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'We Are Lady Parts' creators Nida Manzoor and Surian Fletcher-Jones sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to chat all about season 2 of their Peacock series and discuss the nuances between different Muslim women in this THR Emmys Lounge.

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00:00The reason why I made the show We Are Lady Parts was to explore the nuances between different

00:04Muslim women, to explore, you know, what it means to be gay and Muslim, what it means

00:08to be a black woman and Muslim, and just see those nuances play out, because I think that's

00:12kind of what the show's about, is just to say there's no one way to be a Muslim person.

00:18It contains multitudes.

00:19One, two, three, four!

00:30I so loved ending season one on that high of the band finally playing their gig, but

00:36I think I knew for season two I wanted to sort of move things along.

00:39I mean, it took me a while to figure out how far along we wanted to have started.

00:43We kind of wanted to acknowledge that a little bit of time had passed, and also that the girls

00:49are older, and they're kind of, you know, looking at life a little bit differently.

00:55And so we wanted to get into the idea that they're not just kids mucking about anymore.

00:59They're ladies.

01:00We're recording this album.

01:01We should have been excited, but we were all a little jangly.

01:10We got to set up all these amazing characters, and it just felt right to then go in a bit deeper

01:15to each of their individual lives.

01:17And as we started writing and developing, it just felt like the natural thing to do, I think.

01:20And the girls are just, each of them so strong as actors and performers, that it just, it felt so natural.

01:27It did, yeah.

01:28Let's do a girl power anthem.

01:31Getting to know Sarah Camilla Impey, who plays Syrah, she's got such silliness and, like, fun.

01:37And, you know, in season one, Syrah's a very serious, straight-laced character.

01:40But season two, I was like, you know what?

01:42I know that Sarah can fall down and do some more, kind of, of the sillier, sillier beats.

01:47So kind of learning that about Sarah was also really fun.

01:49And Juliette as well.

01:50Oh, yeah.

01:51Juliette Mutamat, who plays Aisha.

01:52We'd seen her in some of her other film work and TV work.

01:56And she's hilarious in season one.

01:58But we just knew that we could take her into a more dramatic storyline that would showcase her

02:04serious acting.

02:06I would love that.

02:08That would be really awesome.

02:10I think my favorite song from season two is Gas Ceiling Feeling.

02:25I think because it was such a departure from what we'd done before and all the other songs,

02:29it was the sort of biggest risk for me.

02:31I'm so proud of that song.

02:32It's probably the most serious song.

02:34But it felt like some sort of growth happened in writing that song for me.

02:42Was it just me or could you smell something burning?

02:46I think the question of the burden of representation is so huge for so many writers

02:50who come from minority backgrounds.

02:52That conversation that happens at the end of episode five,

02:55where the band are really grappling with this question of, like,

02:58what is real representation?

03:00I mean, it came out of this writers room where it was this group of Muslim women,

03:03all from different backgrounds, just having this very heated debate of what

03:07our role is as creatives.

03:09You know, I had this moment in that room where I was like,

03:11this is the scene.

03:12And this is the joy of having a show which has five cast members, five, like, leads,

03:16that you can put those issues that are really meaty and chewy and hard to kind of find your way through

03:21and just give it to this group of this cast and really bounce that issue around the room.

03:27And it just felt very real and true.

03:29And I think I'm drawn to those gray areas where I'm grappling with it myself.

03:34I don't have an answer, but I love to just present it to the audience.

03:37Yeah. And it felt like as a punk band,

03:40that it felt so natural for those girls to question where, what you do as a punk band,

03:47what, what, how far you push things, because that's what a punk band is there to do,

03:51is, is to push the boundaries.

03:52Or even yesterday, maybe we're a novelty act, the token black and brown.

03:59And also what I think is so powerful about your vision and your way of expressing that you can

04:05choose your own sense of identity and you can pick bits from the west and the east and from

04:10the old world and the new world and forge your own sense of being and that that's, that's you.

04:17It's kind of rad. And I feel like nobody else has expressed that as articulately with humour.

04:24Aisha's like sexy spice and Sarah's cool spice.

04:30Amina's girl next door spice. And do you know what I am? I am, I am mummy spice.

04:36All the time that it's taken between pilot season one, season two, I've matured.

04:41I've grown as an artist. I've grown in confidence in my voice.

04:44I've learned how to work within these systems and these spaces.

04:48And most importantly, I found the people I collaborate best with.

04:51It was because of all that growth that happened in those intervening years.

04:55So I just feel extremely lucky to have it take that long.

04:59Lady Parts is more important than any one of us.

05:01You guys better go out there and show the world who we are.

05:05Llevar, Llevar, Llevar, Llevar.

05:07Llevar, Llevar.

05:08Víорon era, baby.

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