Joe Alwyn and 'Conversations With Friends' Co-Stars React to Taylor Swift Praising the Series as 'Phenomenal' 'Hightown' and 'Sex Education' Intimacy Coordinators Talk Ensuring Comfort and Care for Actors “I feel like I’m more similar to Frances than any character in pop culture, ever,” she says, talking to Variety about the work she did with co-writers Marshall Vore and Ruby Henley in coming up with the song.
That’s because she considered herself already there, innately. It’d be a natural ask even if Bridgers hadn’t already established herself for years now as a super-fan of source novelist Sally Rooney.Īsk Bridgers how much time she spent trying to get into the series protagonist’s head with her new song, “Sidelines,” and the answer comes quickly: None. But especially for a streaming series that has women in their early 20s at the fore, as Hulu’s “ Conversations With Friends” does, it makes sense that the first go-to for producers to approach with the idea of doing a theme song would be Bridgers. There are at least a couple generations of music fans now that have Phoebe Bridgers at the top of a list of artists they’d love to be having still more musical conversations with.
