Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Fiona Shaw shared a touching reunion on Tuesday night when they joined John Krasinski at the IF premiere in London.
The two actresses have been friends for a long time and have worked together for many years on highly successful shows: Fleabag and Killing Eve.
Phoebe, 38, seemed delighted to see her ‘muse’ on the red carpet, while Fiona, 65, rushed to hug her friend, with an expression of pure delight on her face.
Phoebe looked sensational in a sophisticated yet daring ensemble, opting for a classic black pinstripe suit.
However, the Golden Globe winner added a daring element to her look with a sheer polka dot shirt that showed off her black bra underneath.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Fiona Shaw shared a touching reunion on Tuesday night when they joined John Krasinski at the IF premiere in London.
The two actresses have been friends for a long time and have worked together for many years on highly successful shows: Fleabag and Killing Eve.
While Fiona put on a glamorous display in a voluminous sparkly blue dress, featuring puffed sleeves and adorned with a sequin bow.
They posed with John, 44, who wrote, produced and directed the animated film, as well as playing Bea’s father.
The actor looked typically handsome in a pair of gray striped pants and a black sweater over a simple white shirt.
Phoebe previously named Fiona her ‘muse’ after seeing Fiona star in the lead role in a Broadway production of Medea when Phoebe was 16.
The Indiana Jones star said his performance “left an indelible mark on my soul and set a standard of acting that I have accepted will remain unmatched, but one that I have always strived for.”
When writing the second season of her acclaimed show Fleabag, Phoebe created a role for Fiona as her advisor, saying that every time she writes a line she hopes “that one day, when I put them all together, I can convince her to say them.” ‘.
For Phoebe’s other incredibly successful TV show, Killing Eve, which she also wrote and produced, she sought out Fiona to play the lead role of Carolyn Martens, which earned her a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress.
Speaking to The Times in 2021, Phoebe gushed: “I discovered that you should always know your heroines as long as your heroine is Fiona Shaw.”
He continued: ‘There is more life in Fiona Shaw than in a galloping herd of gazelles.
‘You can walk away from a single conversation with Fiona feeling like you’ve been in the presence of Aphrodite, your mother, your long-lost lover, a president you want to impress, your friend who always gets you into trouble, a poet, Mother Nature. , someone who once had a martini with the devil and the best of the British Library.
“Talking to Fiona makes you feel like you’ve been given something you’re not sure you deserve.”
He added that he was “very lucky” to have met the Harry Potter star, adding: “She would bow down if she told me this, but it’s a privilege.” Professionally she is a kind of muse.
‘Since working with her I have found myself writing for her on a whim; I’ll get a line that I know is for her and I’ll write it under a note titled “Fiona.”
While Fiona has expressed her mutual admiration for Phoebe, she told the Big Issue in 2019 that she would ‘fantasize’ about being the star’s mother.
She admitted: ‘You just want a little bit of it to rub off on you because it leaves gold dust in its wake.
‘Phoebe is a force. When you are in the same room you feel her vitality. It has light coming out of it.
“I don’t know her psyche, but there must be a deep vein of pain and sadness, because you can’t write as well as she does without that.”