Yes, Phoebe Waller-Bridge might bring back ‘Fleabag’… when she’s 50 [WATCH]

Good news: Phoebe Waller-Bridge says we may get more “Fleabag.” Bad news: We’ll have to wait a while for it.

During her appearance on Tuesday’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and fresh off “Fleabag’s” six Emmy wins, including Best Comedy Series, Waller-Bridge said she’s closed the door on the titular character for now, but she wouldn’t be opposed to revisiting her in middle age.

“I quite like the idea of coming back to her when — well, me, when I’m 50,” she told Seth Meyers (watch above). “Because I feel like she would’ve had more life then, and God knows what she would have got up to. And actually seeing a character like that in her later stage of life, I think, is exciting. But I think, for now, she’s been through enough. We gotta let her go.”

Waller-Bridge is 34. If you can’t find your abacus, that means 16 more years until she hits the big 5-0. Hopefully the Earth will still be around by then.

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But all of this is merely a bonus for Waller-Bridge, who debuted “Fleabag” as a one-woman show in 2013. The series adaptation premiered on Amazon in September 2016 and was not meant to go for more than one season until she came up with a story (ahem, Hot Priest) for a second season, which dropped in May 2019. Waller-Bridge, who’s hosting “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, has reiterated that the second season would be the last because she feels the story is complete, and that the Emmy wins — she won three herself for comedy series, comedy actress and comedy writing — were a perfect capstone.

Plus, she’s already bid adieu to Fleabag herself. During her final performance on London’s West End last month, Waller-Bridge said she felt the character leave her body. “Vom, right?” she deadpanned. “Vomit. But I really did. I felt something happen. I was like, ‘Oh, I’ve got to let her go now.’ And she was like, ‘Bye-bye!'”

Bye, Fleabag. See you in 2035.

 

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