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What did Phoebe Waller-Bridge convey to you, in early conversations about the show?

There was never anything like an end product or a goal. We never talked about it in terms of, “This is a psychological drama.” We never talked about, “This is the female psyche.” We never talked about it in the ways that, now that it is finished and you can look back on it, you can now comment on it.

The way that we would talk about it is just like, “What is going on in your vagina?” You know what I mean? This is also what I look for in how I work now. If I think about it, I’ve just recently worked with a couple of female playwrights, and I remember saying this to one of them. It’s just like, “How can I live in your vagina?” What I mean by that is from the deepest, most creative place of a woman. So like, where is that, and can we create from that place? It was mostly going into, “What is interesting to you? How can we both bring our instincts to the piece?”

I get nervous even saying this because it’s hard once you get this moniker, but Phoebe is extremely unique. She has a very clear sense of voice, which is rare. It’s rare to find in anyone, and she’s only in her early 30s. That’s a tricky thing to find early on, in a way that is as confident and developed as I think her voice is.

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