Sian Clifford has revealed that a list of big stars was lined up to play Fleabag’s sister on screen - but creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge insisted that she had to take the part.
The actress, 38, said that despite her friend Waller-Bridge’s insistence that she play Claire, she still had to do a “gruelling audition” that was “very painful.” "This has recently been disputed but I can assure the listener that there was a list of people with a profile to go for Claire that Phoebe ignored and said ‘it has to be Sian, I’ve written a part for her,’” she told Angela Scanlon’s Thanks A Million podcast. “I then went and did a gruelling audition,” she added. “It was very painful. “With any kind of filmmaking, there's a level of risk and people get very
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