Award-winning screenwriter and actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge has teamed up with Edinburgh Gin to design a limited-edition bottle designed to tell the story of her rise from one-woman show The inside story of the huge success of an unlikely but welcome collaboration. - TV series Fleabag , and raising funds for the arts in the process. Cheers to that.
In a statement to Bustle, it's confirmed that the limited-edition bottle of gin was designed by Waller-Bridge himself and features a hand-drawn illustration of the actor gazing at the dark blue Edinburgh skyline. It's a city close to the actor's heart as it was the place where she first performed Fleabag at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe back in 2013.
The bottles, filled with the distillery's classic London Dry gin, will be available to pre-order from 20 July. Profits from the collaboration will help raise funds for emerging artists in the City of Edinburgh.
Other details of the specially designed drink include a painted spotlight freestanding chair that Waller-Bridge used while performing on stage, while the legendary Fleabag line "I love you" (if you know it, you know it) Handwritten next to the actor's bottle is the equally iconic reply "This too shall pass" - penned by Andrew Scott himself.
Speaking about the collaboration, Waller-Bridge described gin and theater as her "two great loves".
"With this bottle we wanted to capture all the mystery and wonder of Edinburgh, through the eyes of Fleabag, where she found her first home." The actor continued in a statement: “I hope every purchase inspires bold and creative conversations on the ice while reinvigorating the much-loved Fringe Festival. It’s important to add that Andrew Scott’s hand on the bottle Wrote a message... If that's not enough to inspire you to hunt one down and stick it on your cheek, I don't know what is."
If you'd like to get your hands on a bottle of the limited edition gin, you can register at edinburghgin.com for exclusive pre-sale access, which, as mentioned, will take place on July 20th . Fleabag Edinburgh Gin bottles are priced at £48 and are scheduled to be generally available in August 2021.
