At an event at the Paley Center in Beverly Hills reported by Deadline, Salke said of Waller-Bridge: “She probably thinking to herself like ‘geez do I have another story to tell because people really love this.” Though Salke admitted that: “people will say I’m in denial.”
However, according to Variety, she added: “I know that she’s a very prolific, very ambitious producer, so she’s not going to do a show for the sake of doing a show.”
Earlier this year Salke commented: “I’m basically her stalker…Anything Phoebe wants to do, nothing would make us happier to bring another season of her show. Anything she wants to do. I’m forever the optimist.”
However, the British writer-actress-producer has previously ruled out another season of Fleabag for at least the next few decades. She told the BBC in March: “I have thought about it and there isn’t going to be one. This is it—this is the final curtain.”
However, after the show won seven Emmys, including three for Waller-Bridge personally, she seemed to be warming to the idea of a third season. According to The Sun, she said: “Even though it’s so nice to hear that so many people loved it, it’s like, ‘Oh dammit, maybe I shouldn’t have waved goodbye.’ [But] it does feel like the story is complete… it does feel right to go out on a high.”
If the show did return, however, it may not be for a number of years. She told The Hollywood Reporter in August: “I feel like it’s done, but I do have a fantasy of bringing her back when I’m, like, 45 or 50. She went on the biggest journey over the past two seasons, and she started as someone who sort of hated herself and ended up as someone believing that she could love again and forgive herself. I have to respect that arc and let her go and live for a bit.”
Newsweek has reached out to Waller-Bridge’s representatives regarding Salke’s comments.
