Los Angeles: Writer-actor Phoebe Waller-Bridge has revealed that she was "teetering on the edge of a depression" amid a pressure to conform to beauty standards.
In an interview with a leading broadcasting corporation, the 34-year-old shared that she took writing the comedy-drama series Fleabag because she was being offered limited roles after leaving drama school and she felt under pressure to become the "ideal version of a woman".
"It really got under my skin. (There was) this ideal version of a woman everyone had to aspire to from a very young age and the ideal was that she was very sexual and perfect."
"I felt so angry about it because I didn't feel I had to justify myself. And I had to prove that first and foremost I had a brain and I was clever. But at the same time, I also felt I had to prove that I was pretty and desirable."
Phoebe has co-written the new James Bond movie No Time To Die and actor Daniel Craig praised her, saying "she'll bring something new and fresh to the money-spinning franchise".
Craig had said, "I had my eye on her ever since the first Fleabag and then I saw Killing Eve and what she did with that and just wanted her voice. It is so unique - we are very privileged to have her on board."
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