Russell Grant Magazine – Feb 2020 (Cupid220)

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge

The Weirdness of Human Nature

crime biopic that had us glued to our screens, and will continue to so.

Even Vogue swooned over her"silent movie star face", the chic red lipstick, her stylish suits. Everyone who is anyone is a Phoebe fan these days. “Funny” melts the hardest heart, and let's face it, Phoebe is hilarious. Perhaps she learned how to be a joker when she attended Catholic school, and cottoned on to the weirdness of human nature,

This girl will “spice up” anything given a chance. During her recent Golden Globe acceptance speech for Amazon's “Fleabag” a sad, dark, very funny series about the foibles of modern sex and platonic love, she happened to crack an Obama joke. Well, one would not expect anything less from the latest “L'Enfant Terrible” of show biz.

A London Born, Cancer Sign Golden Girl, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's “laugh a minute” irreverence “smashed through the comedy landscape like a bull in a china shop” according to Oprah. Oprah magazine also insisted “...She is only on the precipice of her career." She has leaped over that precipice now Ms O with the help of a witty Moon in Gemini, making us cry with mirth at her apt depictions of the female condition.

Blame her moon in Gemini for all that jazz. Gemini moon folks are often side splitting-ly witty; in fact “Style and irony” are the operative words when it comes to this gal's "Silver Lady" repartee.

Side Splitting The multifariously talented Phoebe, certainly enjoys a fit of the giggles. She probably split her sides laughing when creating "Killing Eve", and when offered the job of writing some of the “No Time to Die” James Bond script she probably could not pick herself off the floor. She told the BBC she“spiced up” the story line. She also spiced up "Killing Eve" the

Sensitive During her interview with US comedy legend Tina Fey, pretty and impressed Phoebe admitted how sensitive she felt when she first leapt into the deep end of that “Actor-Show-Creator-Script Writing” profession. Her need to kick against a top draw thespian training, as in playing out her preposterous dark humour, is typical of a joker. She continues to shock “ The Disgruntled of Tunbridge Wells” Brigade. The rest of the human race are rolling in the aisles. Her "Fleabag" role was revolutionary. Yet she told Oprah Magazine she felt the character was done; her fans might beg to differ. They will miss


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