Phoebe Waller-Bridge reveals reason she quit ‘Mr & Mrs Smith’ series

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Mr & Mrs Smith.The Fleabag star and creator, who was set to star and co-write the TV adaptation, said in a new interview that creative projects are “like a marriage” and that “some marriages don’t work out”.

Waller-Bridge left the Amazon project in September 2021.She told Vanity Fair: “I worked on that show for six months fully in heart and mind and really cared about it – still care about it.“And I know it’s gonna be brilliant.

But sometimes it’s about knowing when to leave the party. You don’t want to get in the way of a vision.”The actress and screenwriter also confirmed that her creative deal with Amazon was still intact after reports emerged this year highlighted that she hadn’t yet produced anything for the studio.Waller-Bridge was due to star opposite Donald Glover in the series, which is an adaptation of the 2005 assassins action-comedy film starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.Glover and Waller-Bridge first worked together on the 2018 Star Wars spinoff Solo: A Star Wars Story.The Atlanta creator devised the concept for a reboot of Mr & Mrs Smith before presenting it to Waller-Bridge.

Filming began in 2022.Waller-Bridge added in the interview that she accepts she is “creatively controlling” rather than a perfectionist. “What I look for in something is that little bit of electricity, of danger or saying something, doing something that hasn’t been done before,” she said.“If I don’t feel that, I can plough and plough and plough, I just won’t make it.”Amazon Studios, she added, have been understanding about her particularities.