00:00Hi Phoebe in the kind of center here.
00:03Hi.
00:04Congratulations on all the wins.
00:06Does this inspire you?
00:07You had said that this was the end of Fleabag,
00:10there would be no more Fleabag.
00:12Given all the reaction and all the love for it,
00:14is it possible we might see more?
00:17I mean, to be honest, this just feels like the most beautiful,
00:20beautiful way to say goodbye to it, actually.
00:23And it feels like, as Sian always puts it so beautifully,
00:26it does feel like the story is complete.
00:27And even though it is, you know,
00:29it's so nice to hear that so many people loved it.
00:32It's a bit like, oh, damn it.
00:33Maybe she shouldn't have waved goodbye at the end.
00:36But it does feel right.
00:38It does feel right.
00:38And go out on a high.
00:39You know, you can't get higher than this.
00:45Congratulations on all your Emmys.
00:47Over here.
00:48Hi, thanks.
00:49Audiences really loved you in this character.
00:51How much of this character is really you?
00:54And also, how does it feel to be, you know,
00:58considered the voice of the modern-day woman?
01:03Wow.
01:04That sounds great.
01:06Thanks.
01:08How much of it is me?
01:09It's a very, it's not autobiographical,
01:11but it's really, really personal.
01:12Like, I feel, I feel this character did come out of me
01:16and out of a, at the very, at the very beginning,
01:19I was feeling, when I first started writing her,
01:21I was feeling quite cynical and quite bleak about the world.
01:25And, and writing her was a really cathartic way
01:28of getting through that.
01:30And, but she's, she's absolutely part of me,
01:32but she's, every single person here has got a,
01:35she's a part of everyone here,
01:36and everyone here put a part of themselves into her.
01:38So, so it feels like it's, it's, it's all of us now.
01:44Hi, Michelle from Fox.
01:46Hi.
01:47The priest storyline.
01:49Did you, like, where did that come from?
01:52Did you actually sleep with a priest?
01:54Did you have a crush on a priest?
01:55I mean, it was so fantastic.
01:58Um, usually I'm a big fan of write what you know,
02:02but in this case, it's, it wasn't so, so on the nose.
02:06No, I'd, I'd known that I wanted to write about religion and faith.
02:10And then, um, Jenny, my story producer here and I
02:13were kicking things around for ages.
02:14And, um, really the more that faith came into the equation
02:18and the more we felt like she needed to have something change in her,
02:21the idea that Fleabag falling in love,
02:23and then this idea of faith,
02:25and then in the middle somewhere this incredible man appeared
02:28and then Andrew walked into that space
02:31and everything started making sense.
02:34So it was very, and it was very, the character,
02:35as I was molding the character,
02:37he was very, very inspired by Andrew and his own heart
02:39and hotness, to be fair.
02:46Phoebe, congratulations on all your wins.
02:49Can you talk about, uh, the win for, uh,
02:52lead actress in a comedy against, um,
02:56Rachel, uh, Rosnader, who won last year,
02:59and then Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who won 20 years before that
03:03every year for Veep, or, or at least five.
03:07Yeah, I mean, those actresses, I mean,
03:10have been such a huge part of my viewing enjoyment
03:13and I've been so inspired by them.
03:15And Julia Louis-Dreyfus, I've been watching, you know,
03:17for, you know, all of those wins and Veep, I studied Veep,
03:21um, from a performance point of view as well,
03:23but also from a writing point of view.
03:24And just being amongst those, those women is extraordinary
03:27and to be, you know, to, to be even part.
03:29I just, I feel like I've come in the back door
03:31and I've just like nicked something.
03:33It's the honest truth.
03:35Um, but it's, um, but it's, yeah, it feels very, very special.
03:47Hi, I'm Charlie from Showbiz Express right down here in front.
03:51Congratulations, everybody.
03:52It seems like there could be a lot of ad-libbing going on
03:56and a lot of retakes.
03:57Can you just kind of take us into the world
04:00when the cameras start filming?
04:02How scripted is it?
04:03How serious is it with the playing with the fourth wall?
04:07It just looks like you're all having a ball
04:09and I just kind of wanted to step into that world.
04:12Do you guys want to?
04:14It's a real goof fest.
04:15I mean, it'd be really like...
04:17It is, it is, come and talk.
04:20No, it's totally scripted and it's very tightly shot
04:23and we do it very fast, yeah.
04:26Um, I mean, you, you want to get her words perfectly.
04:30But there is quite a lot of last minute changes
04:32and, um, as all of these guys have known,
04:35once we're on set, there's always a moment which is,
04:37uh, might change this last minute
04:39and the energy and the commitment to this whole cast
04:42is to jump in and do it.
04:43Um, so it's every...
04:44I mean, it's, it's, yeah, it's a kind of...
04:46Yeah, I don't know.
04:47Do you want anyone to say anything?
04:49John?
04:50Phoebe, if I could ask you right here,
04:51just to your left, right here.
04:54Congratulations.
04:54Steve Futterman from CBS News.
04:56I wanted to ask you,
04:57the acceptance of the program.
04:59That's always...
05:00Will it work across the pond?
05:02Many have, many have not.
05:04Some great British shows.
05:05Performers have just not made it here.
05:07Was there concern?
05:08And when did you realize it was going to work in the US?
05:13I felt...
05:14I mean, I didn't realize it before at all.
05:16I mean, it was always a surprise.
05:18I mean, when Amazon picked us up,
05:19that was, that was huge.
05:21Um, and it was Joe who, uh, Joe Lewis here,
05:24who, uh, who found, who found us and picked us up and brought us over.
05:27And Amazon's enthusiasm gave us a lot of faith.
05:29Um, but then just feeling the rolling, um,
05:32the rolling feedback from it as it was coming out.
05:33And just the relief knowing that this is a universal thing.
05:36Because I strongly believed that if things are truly funny,
05:38they should be funny for everyone everywhere.
05:40And truly moving, they should be moving for everyone everywhere.
05:42And, uh, so it was a great relief that we'd actually, uh,
05:44landed in a way that was, uh, felt more universal.
05:48And when you look at some of the great American comedies
05:51that have just won this award all throughout the years,
05:54the Seinfeld.
05:55I don't know if you ever heard of the Mary Tyler Moore show.
05:57Yeah, of course.
05:58Those, those shows have won over the years.
06:00And to be in that group right now.
06:02Yeah.
06:03I mean, I mean, it's just, it's the things that dreams are made of.
06:06And it's the thing that you secretly at the back of your head
06:08when you're, when I was watching those shows
06:10and growing up with those shows, just thinking, you know,
06:12how much you're absorbing and learning from them all.
06:14And then to be, to share a stage with them, uh,
06:16it's just marks a huge moment for me in my life
06:19and to be doing it with such great friends and collaborators.
06:22It's just wonderful.
06:23We have time for two more questions.
06:25Phoebe, one of the things that made Fleabag stand out,
06:28right over here.
06:29Hey, one, right here.
06:31Oh, thanks.
06:32One of the things that made Fleabag stand out is just how,
06:34how, how expertly you channeled a certain,
06:37a level of frustration for women in the world right now
06:40as a level of professional and educated women
06:43that are just not finding, you know, that the perfect happiness
06:47that maybe they grew up thinking that they were going to find
06:50if they could have career and family.
06:52How did, how did the circumstances, the world, craziness in the US,
06:57Brexit in the UK, did any of that influence the worldview
07:00that Fleabag came to season two with?
07:04Um, strangely, no.
07:07I mean, yes, of course, because it's, because it was absorbing everything.
07:11But really it was, we were trying to build from the inside out
07:14with this series.
07:16And it was very much about a character piece.
07:19And even though there's so much that is political about it,
07:22it was really about one person's journey and always has to be.
07:25And even though she's occupying the modern world as it is now,
07:28it's really about how hard it is for somebody who hates themselves
07:31to fall in love.
07:33And, and hopefully that will, that, you know, is relevant across all,
07:37you know, all times.
07:39Um, yeah.
07:41I think that's...
07:41Phoebe.
07:42Oh.
07:42Hi.
07:43Congratulations.
07:45You know, do you feel like this year you got discovered
07:49or this season you got discovered?
07:51The first season you had devoted fans,
07:54but then all of a sudden you could feel the country
07:57or the viewers getting a crush on this show.
08:01You know, that's a funny way to put it,
08:03but they were all telling each other.
08:05And what, was it something that built up?
08:09Was it the second season?
08:10Was it a surprise to you?
08:12I don't know.
08:13I mean, yeah, it was a huge, huge surprise.
08:15And it was, you know, we'd all hit the ground running
08:18with the second season because we knew where we'd come from before.
08:21And so there was this energy on set immediately
08:23and then bringing Andrew in, who was this new, fresh character in it.
08:27And there was this momentum for all of us.
08:29So we really, really believed in it.
08:30But then hearing...
08:31It was the word of mouth stuff that just kills me.
08:33Like knowing that people have said,
08:35I've told my friend and my friend told their friend
08:37and my whole family watching it because of that.
08:39That's the stuff that, you know, is really special
08:41because it moves people to tell them.
08:42And the press have been so amazing
08:44and writing all these incredible pieces on it.
08:47And it did feel like a tidal wave, didn't it?
08:49Just suddenly hitting us all.
08:51And actually here, because it lands as one thing,
08:54one bingeable thing here,
08:55whereas in the UK it was spread out over six weeks.
08:57So it sort of landed and then there was this explosion of response
09:00and it was...
09:01It was...
09:01There was kind of shockwaves to it.
09:03There it was.
09:04It was.
09:04And so it was something...
09:09It was good.
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