She’s a new person we made in the service of making a great show. All of that carried through to the show, but we built a fictional world around those things.
I think that’s really a catalyst for having to grow up a little bit, which is what Annie’s doing in the story. There were some tentpoles from the book and from my life that I wanted to make sure were in there: the abortion, her dad being sick, having this contentious relationship with her boss. Were you adamant about keeping or changing anything in particular? We wanted to show a woman who reacts with defiance and tries to figure out a new way to live in the body that she has.” “The whole point is to tell a story about a fat woman that is not the same as the stories we’ve heard a million times. “It’s not like she’s a mousy little wallflower-she’s someone with personal style and confidence, to a degree,” West says of Annie. Using West’s work and life as a loose template, Shrill is the fictional tale of Annie (Bryant), a writer at a Portland alt-weekly whose boss (John Cameron Mitchell) underestimates her, whose mother (Julia Sweeney) tries to micromanage her diet and whose slacker boyfriend (Luka Jones) doesn’t deserve her. West developed the show with Elizabeth Banks, who executive produced it with her, and co-wrote the first season with its star Aidy Bryant. This year, feminist writer Lindy West spent International Women’s Day answering questions about Shrill, the new Hulu series based on her 2016 book. Writer Lindy West (L) and Aidy Bryant, the star of her new Hulu show, Shrill.
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