10 Screenwriting Tips from Phoebe Waller-Bridge on how she wrote Fleabag and Killing Eve

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Emmy winning screenwriter Phoebe Waller Bridge gives advice for writers in the interview about her screenwriting process and lessons from the screenplay on her tv series Fleabag, Killing Eve and Crashing. Waller-Bridge co-wrote the screenplay for No Time to Die (2021), the 25th James Bond film. She appeared on Graham Norton and Saturday Night Live - SNL with Donald Glover. She also won a Bafta and two Golden Globes.
0:00 - Intro
1:10 - Tip 01 - Disarm the audience with comedy and laughing; then punch them in the gut with drama.
1:52 - Tip 02 - Constantly challenge yourself to make your script UNPREDICTABLE and to SURPRISE the audience in a truthful way.
3:30 - Tip 03 - Material first, jokes first, character first. Structure always second. Put all your material on the wall and then structure the story from it.
5:58 - Tip 04 - RELATE DEEPLY to your characters and draw from your PERSONAL experience.
8:07 - Tip 05 - Write COMPLEX characters with MULTIPLE LAYERS that the actors will be eager to play.
10:14 - Tip 06 - If you have a character that is careless and unlikable on the outside - show their pain underneath and build in them a lot of HUMANITY to make them likeable.
11:58 - Tip 07 - Write RELATABLE characters with whom everybody can identify with.
12:47 - Tip 08 - If you’re an actor/actress write as if you're NOT AFRAID and write TRUTHFULLY like writing your DIARY. That way you’ll learn so much about the character.
14:13 - Tip 09 - If you wrote a tv pilot, try to attract quality production crew who will shoot it for cheap because they like your writing. After a well shot pilot, it’s much easier to get funding for the whole series.
15:36 - Tip 10 - Comedy and drama are intrinsically linked. The trick is to find the right balance between the two.
17:05 - Outro
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[@kevinfelix2543]

as a screenwriter, it's nice to hear different screenwriters' approaches to writing. no two writers write the same - equals diversity and imagination

[@OutstandingScreenplays]

✅💯

[@judichristopher4604]

There is an old saying, "When you're a Scriptwriter, or a Filmmaker... etc. "You want to put your Shoe (stories feelings) so far into the audience chest, that they take your shoe with them when they leave the movie theater."

[@MrUndersolo]

Reading the scripts for the series now ('Fleabag: The Scriptures'). She did an incredible job of writing.

[@OutstandingScreenplays]

She did! 💯🙌✅

[@l.8159]

Hey! Where did you find the script? I would love to read it

[@veravalshonok6632]

@MrUndersolo Where can I find to read it?

[@aldo]

You have a very nice channel my dude, keep the good work, hugs!

[@reje3814]

I've been trying to find sources of writing advice from Phoebe Waller-Bridge. THANK YOU

[@campuzanofilm]

She also did an interview with Script Notes a while back, if you can find it i highly recommend listening to it

[@amnesiasoon]

Her works are so present and humorous and relatable and beyond unique!❤️

[@nicolakozera3853]

I have nothing to do with writing but I'd like to write a short story. I love Phoebe's masterpieces and style of writing and this video is so helpful and inspiring!

[@zbr76]

Not even 5 years in the 'big leagues' and she's a legend.

[@judichristopher4604]

The only thing that was wrong with this video... is it wasn't longer! I gasped at the end of this video, because I could listen to Phoebe for ever! Excellent video... Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@m.mishra9133]

I love these compilations man. Keep'm coming.

[@cestlavieee814]

Phoebe inspires me so much!!! I want to write a coming of age dramedy, so I’m searching for writers I admire, and her writing is *👩‍🍳 💋 *

[@OutstandingScreenplays]

💟💯🙌

[@sabrinawiggins706]

this is such a great writing resource, thanks for taking the time to make these!

[@danieladamico5485]

Thank you for this video! I especially love Phoebe Waller-Bridge's work on the first season of Killing Eve, such perfect dark and dramatic comedy.

[@aqsa7842]

@@moviedetective303 honestly I couldn't have agreed more, just finished the third season of killing Eve, I can vouch at any given point of how drastically the quality in writing reduces In the season 2 if we go on comparing it with the 1st one and season 3 is absolutely intolerable. The story, the structure, the astounding slow pace of the plot makes it absolutely necessary for the audience to get heavily distracted from it.

[@hildrianaguevara]

Love what you're doing with this channel 💛🙋🏽‍♀️

[@reemnehad3844]

She is my favourite ARTIST!!

[@AmericanActionReport]

Sir Laurence Olivier saw the link between comedy and drama. He said, "Play a comedy like a tragedy and a tragedy like a comedy."

[@SoCreate]

All amazing tips. Tip #7 is a great one to remember considering everyone's circumstances.

[@davidpearson611]

Fantastic. Thank you

[@ameliaamelia132]

I want to see Michaela Coel next!

[@VarunRastogiawesome]

Awesome channel, more power to you !

[@sandeepgoolla8848]

Love from india pls make more videos on screenwriters and directors pls

[@sandeepgoolla8848]

Excellent video

[@PersonaEstudioActoral]

Thank you!!!!

[@justinalbertgrimaldo]

She's freaking amazing.

[@howardkoor9365]

Great share

[@howardkoor9365]

Brilliant

[@chrisulus1966]

wonderful

[@erin5498]

Fine I’ll watch fleabag again

[@guada-o-nada]

This is great. Where can I find the full interviews? can you provide the resources?

[@Misadventures_85]

the only source I recognize is for numbers 4, 6, 9: it's an interview from a KZbin channel called BUILD Series

[@TomEyeTheSFMguy]

Could you please do Edgar Wright?

[@sandeepgoolla8848]

❤️ from india

[@magicalpig6542]

Youve no idea how helpful his is

[@debradeliso]

Raw smarts!

[@srujanaradhya4306]

Akiro Kurosawa's please.....,🙏

[@OutstandingScreenplays]

Coming soon! 🙌

[@gabrielidusogie9189]

@@OutstandingScreenplays also PTA’s. He’s my fav filmmaker

[@silent6648]

David Mamet would be a good choice for a future video, he may come off intense but he’s really smart and knows exactly what he’s doing

[@prashantsaurav8387]

Where can i get the script ???

[@camillesfeir1251]

Siegfried and Roy

[@gouthams3641]

Don't know why u didn't add the tips in the description this time

[@OutstandingScreenplays]

Added

[@gouthams3641]

@@OutstandingScreenplays thank you ♥️

[@andreaven2287]

You realize this woman is just good at writing about herself and every point illustrate that?

[@mrglance1]

Please... No DISLIKES!!!

[@judichristopher4604]

RIght!!! How can anyone in their right mind, dislike this video!

[@whoosWE]

lmfao

[@palomaortega8652]

feature more women pls

[@HeIsNakedLunch]

The first two are the moral crux. You can save us from the rest. Please. Thank you. Terrah.

[@nevik6671]

Screen writing tips from the person who has destroyed James Bond and now Indiana Jones. Lord knows if the rumors are true Jones will flop faster than Bond has.

[@jonasuck1232]

What a jealous, angry and little man

[@nevik6671]

@@jonasuck1232 that was a man on stage? My apologies then it was worse than I thought.

[@ellielouise7005]

criticism from some angry guy in a comment section who has probably never done anything remarkable. if she's not for you, maybe just get on with your life?

[@LKre-vi5oq]

Incel alert!

[@LKre-vi5oq]

He's also peevy because she's made more money in one year than whiney will make in his whole life.

[@user-vt1se7jk4s]

This is great. Where can I find the full interviews? can you provide the resources?