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S1, Ep1 How To Fail - Phoebe Waller-Bridge

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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Fleabag

Fleabag sort of rose out of a failure not your own failure but it arose out of the failure for interesting parts to be offered to you as a young woman is that right? Well I'd say it felt like my failure because I'd left drama school and nobody was interested. There's so much literature and gossip and chatting about why you won't be successful in this industry. So I wanted to play the stranger, quirky roles. That's why I loved acting. And then he cast me as a transvestite prostitute with a beard and a penis strapped on and thigh high boots which also proved glorious failures. He was a rude girl. Yes I can't even believe I'm saying

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