We know her best as L-337 from Solo: A Star Wars Story, but she’s equally well known for inhabiting the soul of Fleabag and for driving Killing Eve to Emmy success, but now that Fleabag is no more, what’s next for Phoebe Waller-Bridge? There’s a script polish on Bond 25, placing her in Carrie Fisher territory as someone who comes in to add zap and zing to scripts, but with a mind as sharp and out there as hers, surely we have some more treasures ahead?
Waller-Bridge’s real Fleabag follow-up, she insists, is a feature she’s writing with the intent to direct: “The day I wrapped Fleabag, I went to bed thinking, ‘I’m never going to have another idea again. Oh shit.’ I woke up with the vision of this film.” Of three things she appears to be certain: She won’t take the project to market until it’s finished, she needs a meaningful theatrical release (sorry, Netflix) and she will not be cajoled into appearing on camera — though the third requirement could prove unrealistic. “I blatantly will end up in it,” she cops after wincing her way into a laugh.
In the age of the nine-figure overall deal, it’s also easy to assume any future sale for Waller-Bridge may coincide with the multihyphenate wedding herself to one outlet. “You can smell it a mile off when people are just saying, ‘We want to pay for your name,’ to be associated with their company and then have their own agenda,” she says. “No, I wouldn’t trust that for a second.”
The Rise of Skywalker is coming our way in just a few short months – please, can the Force gods allow us just one L-337 line of dialogue aboard the Falcon in what could be its final onscreen appearance? Just one!
