Phoebe Waller-Bridge explains why she quit Amazon’s Mr & Mrs Smith series: ‘Some marriages don’t work out’

Phoebe Waller-Bridge has addressed her departure from the Amazon sequence Mr & Mrs Smith.

The creator and star of Fleabag was introduced as a part of a serialised adaptation of the married spy story, as first portrayed within the steamy 2005 film by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

She and Donald Glover have been connected to star within the undertaking, in addition to write and contribute to the artistic group. Nevertheless, in September 2021, Waller-Bridge exited the undertaking, along with her departure defined as the results of “artistic variations”.

In a brand new interview with Vanity Fair, Waller-Bridge, 37, assured the publication that the cut up was amicable and got here from her not eager to be an impediment in others’ plans for the programme.

“I labored on that present for six months absolutely in coronary heart and thoughts and actually cared about it – nonetheless care about it,” she stated.

“And I do know it’s gonna be good. However generally it’s about figuring out when to depart the occasion. You don’t need to get in the best way of a imaginative and prescient.”

After saying that artistic collaboration is “like a wedding”, she added: “And a few marriages don’t work out.”

She additionally confirmed that her artistic cope with Amazon was nonetheless intact after reviews earlier this 12 months highlighted that she had not but produced something for the streaming studio, regardless of having an settlement allegedly price $20m per 12 months.

Glover, 41, and Waller-Bridge first labored collectively on the 2018 Star Wars spin-off, Solo: A Star Wars Story. The Atlanta creator got here up with the idea for a reboot of Mr & Mrs Smith earlier than presenting it to Waller-Bridge.

Later within the Vainness Honest piece, revealed on Tuesday (27 June), Waller-Bridge acquiesced to being known as “creatively controlling” slightly than a perfectionist.

“What I search for in one thing is that little little bit of electrical energy, of hazard or saying one thing, doing one thing that hasn’t been executed earlier than,” she stated.

“If I don’t really feel that, I can plough and plough and plough, I simply received’t make it.”

In response to the Fleabag star, Amazon Studios have been understanding of her strategy of getting issues to a excessive commonplace: “They’ve been with me alongside this course of the place I’m like, ‘I’m getting there, however I need it to be f***ing superb.”

Filming for Mr & Mrs Smith started in 2022, with Maya Erskine now within the function of Jane Smith to Glover’s John Smith. A launch date for the sequence is but to be confirmed.