“Then this play came along and I had to have my top off for 20 minutes but it was really powerful in the scene,” she continued. “My character taking her top off freaks the other guy in the scene out so much that he starts behaving in this terrified way because she is using it as this power game. And I thought, ‘I know how to play that.’ So, I’m playing my nudity rather than just [being naked].”

After handing over writing duties to Emerald Fennell on the Killing Eve series two script while she focuses on her live runs of Fleabag, Waller-Bridge also talked about taking a step back to focus on the future of her writing.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s decision not to go naked in Fleabag proves a lot