Is This Why Phoebe Waller-Bridge Quit Mr. And Mrs. Smith?
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By Joey Keogh/Sept. 8, 2021 12:08 pm EST
The “Fleabag” star’s role will be recast as Glover continues to spearhead the project, which begins production next year. “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” was first announced by the “Atlanta” star back in February, via a clip shared to his Instagram Story which included footage from Waller-Bridge’s groundbreaking show. “Donald Glover x Phoebe Waller-Bridge,” he captioned it. The two previously appeared together in Han Solo origin story, “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” and have demonstrably remained friends ever since. Were they simply unable to find common ground, or is there a more nefarious reason why the British actress stepped back from the show?
The Fleabag star had a different vision for the project
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“Mr. & Mrs. Smith” is currently being written, with Glover leading the charge accordingly. Waller-Bridge, meanwhile, remains busy elsewhere, with a starring role in “Indiana Jones 5,” exec-producer duties on the final season of “Killing Eve,” and even a writing credit on long-delayed James Bond movie “No Time to Die.” As Variety confirmed, “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” is based off the Doug Liman movie of the same name, which follows a married couple who are both secretly spies and find out, a little too late in the game, that they’ve been hired to kill each other. The onset romance between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie was more memorable than the film itself but clearly there’s an appetite for more of this story.
