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Phoebe Waller-Bridge Discusses Her Writing Work on No Time to Die

March 1, 2020 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge is best known for her Emmy-winning work on Fleabag, but she also did some script work on No Time To Die and discussed working on the Bond film in a new interview. Waller-Bridge spoke with Chris Evans for his Virgin Radio breakfast show (per The Independent) and discussed what she did on the film and how it came about. Highlights from the discussion are below:

On being called for a meeting about the film: “I was in the edit for Fleabag. It was an afternoon, and I had the call that Barbara [Broccoli of EON Productions] wanted to meet me. The strangest thing is, is that I’d really… I had been sort of dreaming about the idea of it only a few months beforehand. I was like, ‘Oh, wouldn’t it be cool to be involved in a Bond film’ to sort of just put that there in the ether. And then it just came around.”

Waller-Bridge also elaborated on the process of sprucing up the screenplay after it had been completed.

On the work she did on the script: “[I was asked to do] dialogue polishes and to offer things really. It’s about just offering different alternatives. They did give me some scenes and then be like, ‘Can you write some alternatives for this or have another idea about where it could go in the middle or how it would end?’ And then I would just give them options and various scenes and then they would take what they want. But there was a lot people writing – the director [Cary Fukunaga] was a writer on it as well. And there’d been a few writers before.”

on talking with Daniel Craig during the process: “You know, Daniel is really, really involved from the beginning. [I had] so many great conversations with him about it, constantly in touch with him about it. So it’s a big sort of melting pot of everybody’s ideas the whole time.”