Comedy Actresses Roundtable: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Natasha Lyonne, Tiffany Haddish & More | Clo

I mean, as simple as, her wardrobe is like, like I kept saying when we were creating her, she's a. of those women who have a very specific amount in her closet and it is all she needs. I wonder what that will be like. It's nice... She's like, it's like they're really close together. Like one of those girls who looks clean all the time and probably smells good. I just see girls like that and they fascinate me. - I understand. And you, Jane? - It took me a season to take care of my character, Grace. I had to go back to therapy and start Prozac, but... - Why? - Oh, it's... - That's where vaginal dryness comes from. - Thank you Doctor. - Well, actually, it took me a long time to realize because I had a nervous breakdown during the first season, and I discovered that it's because in the first episode, our husbands tell us they're leaving. us after 40 years and getting married, and that triggered abandonment...

Oh, it's not good to talk about this. - It is not. - But it was a big trigger and I didn't realize that a character like that could be, you know, in a

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, it could actually trigger something very profound, so I loved her and I learned to invite her into the bedroom, and, you know , after the first season, I couldn't have written a backstory for her, then I wrote like 30 pages non-stop. But I really don't want to have to be like her. - But you've ex-- - We have too much in common, as things stand. (group laughing) - The truth is that it is a pleasure to listen to it and it never fails, thank you. - Specificity. - That's how it is.

Especially someone else's, I don't care. - Yes of course! - Yes. - That's always the best. - And you know, and especially women. We are not supposed to speak our truths specifically. It is very revolutionary. - Nobody told me this. - It's like they don't give a shit when women specifically speak their truths. - I'm telling you, I grew up, I learned to be a woman by watching other women, I grew up without a mother, so I felt like a female imitator my whole life. - Me too, me too. - Yes ok? - Hundred percent. -Sure, and so, and that, and I didn't want to ask for the information, so I would go to my friends' bathrooms and look at her cabinets and say, oh, that's face cream.

Okay, let's... - And the other thing is even when you have a mom, like I had my mom, but my mom and I are completely different. My mom didn't want me to shave my legs. I went and thought: I want to shave my legs. She didn't grow hair. She thought it was sexy. I was like, I'm 11 years old and I look like a man because of my legs. I want to shave them! And she didn't know how to teach me to do that, you know, because she never had to shave. So I put on baby oil, lifted my skin, and we ended up at the doctor's office because she told me not to shave.

But, you know, there are things when you're watching TV that she could have asked the white girls at my school because they knew. They said, "Why did you do that?" But you know, you learn from other women and I think one of the best things about listening to everyone is that you feel that, in your feelings, you are not alone. And that vibration of feeling alone makes you feel ashamed, and that's the lowest thing you can feel, but when you hear someone say, oh, I was scared, or I don't know what I'm doing, or 'I'm screwed.' Or do you know what I mean?

Or I'm a... What kind of pussy was it? - From distance. - From distance! You know what I mean? - It seems like an oxymoron. - He does, he does. But it works. - However, the two meet. - Yes, it's a perfect puzzle. - It's a new kind of pussy. - And she's great, and she's fascinating, and that's what I, but that's what I love about fascinating women, is that they're all very different. - It was interesting to hear about the mom, my mom is still with us and we are very close, but she has always been beautiful.

This Hungarian queen, you know, this princess. And I felt like, similarly, I was always impersonal, I never felt like a real woman because she had that, well, that place is already taken in our house. I will be this other thing. I'll be this gremlin thing. - I'm a tomboy. All my mother wanted was a girly girl. The great disappointment. - I thought I was a tomboy too, but then I realized that all my characters were like drag queens that I was creating, amazing, va-va-vaooey, like these ideas of ladies and then what not. What I realize is that this forum where women inherently have to share and learn from each other is actually pretty normal.

I didn't know how to ask other women for advice or opinions because I was ashamed of not having the answers when in reality we, as a gender, are different. Women are destined, we are meant to do it, this is what we do. We share, we talk, we are meant to be in villages. - We stayed behind, around the campfire. (group talk) - I'll give you mine, here you go. - I was a real tomboy. My name was Alex and I shaved my head. He had like boxer briefs. -Alex? - I was a child, until I was 11 years old. - Did people think you were a boy? - Yes Yes. - They also thought I was a boy. - Yes, they do that.

And did you love it when they did it? - Oh, I thought that was a great compliment. - Yes me too. I remember walking into the Gap or something with my mom, and the guy said, "What does the young man want?" and I was like, ahh. - Yes. - And when I started getting hair on my legs, I said, thank you. And I took it very seriously and I think it was because I was really fighting against this idea of ​​having to be a girl or a girl or whatever. I used to be the same. - Totally healthy.

Very healthy reaction. - And you, Tiffany? For better or worse, what are they... - I think the best part about my character, Shay, is that I love how much she says: I don't have kids, but if I did have kids, I'd probably love it. my children as much as she loves her children. It's like she's willing to fight for them. And whatever she has to do, she will do to make sure her children get everything they need. I think it would be like that if she had them. So I love that about her. How much she loves them and she tries to protect them.

I protect my animals like this, but. That's one thing, and I love her fashion sense. I don't dress like that. She spends money on clothes, I go to the swap market. Or I try to get it, you know, secondhand. But that's what, that's it, yeah. I feel like her and have been through a lot of similar things, so I can relate to her a lot. But I love the way she protects her. (upbeat music) - Well, thank you all for being a part of this conversation. (upbeat music)