Phoebe Waller-Bridge finds God, love and more laughs in a second season of 'Fleabag'
NEW YORK - When Phoebe Waller-Bridge was making "Killing Eve," the spy thriller she created for BBC America, she kept a draft email on her phone. It listed jokes, ideas and observations she hoped to use in the second season of her other current series, the darkly comic "Fleabag."
When she finally pulled up the email on her phone, she was shocked that 60% to 70% of what she had written down involved religion, faith, morality in the modern world - "lots of hilarious jokes about that," says Waller-Bridge, who bursts with expressiveness. A rapid-fire talker with big eyes, nimble brows and the bobbed hair of a silent film star, she also uses wild hand gestures, cartoonish voices and an array of evocative sounds to make a point.
"I just find it so moving, that sense of faith, belief, certainty," she says over lunch near Union Square. "As a generation it's not very cool to believe anything. But the appeal of basic Christian principles - which is basically be nice to people, don't be a dick, don't kill anyone - does
