'I saw lots of women around me being out of control, and I wanted to write about this in a raw, hopefully authentic way.' —billiepiper on her directorial debut
, Billie Piper’s directorial debut, doesn’t have a foil — at least, not a traditional one. Instead of Mandy leaving the insecure, vile Pete sitting across from her in a stylish London bar on the trash heap of bad choices, she leans in. She’s in her early 30s, her son is a brat, her parents are dysfunctional, and she really just wants a man. Why not choose chaos? Yes, she will see him again. No, it probably will not go well.
’s trailer release. “I felt that there was this common female crisis — certainly amongst my peers — about this idea of ‘you can have it all, you can be a working mother and a professional woman and have a social life.’ All of those things in combination, I found to be incredibly stressful. That messaging was really overbearing and I saw lots of women around me being out of control, and I wanted to write about this in a raw, hopefully authentic way.
It took Piper five years to finish the script, precisely because she was juggling raising two sons with a successful career as an actress and producer. Still,Photo: Courtesy of Brainstorm Media. “It was a leap of faith,”“People were like ‘There are no likeable characters, everyone is really mean to each other, and it’s really theatrical,’ Piper said. “Fortunately for me, by the time it got picked up, it was in the wake of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and [other] really brilliant women talking honestly about what it costs to be a woman. The timing was crucial.”
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