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The new SF podcast Eliza doesn’t hesitate to go into darker areas, discussing themes of coercion, control and abuse, as its writer Emma Hickman and director Ella Watts explain:

Ella: What I realised more and more with every day of recording was how much Eliza’s core personal struggle outside of her relationship situation is that she doesn’t know who she is or what she is, and she really feels very uncomfortable about that. She feels very stuck between places. She gets the emotions and she doesn’t know if any other robots have that, so she feels like she’s more like a human on the one hand, but she’s more like a robot on the other. She doesn’t feel quite like she’s either of them and she has this anxiety and self consciousness that I thought was really interesting for me to direct.

Emma: Yes, there are parts of her that are so much like Him because she’s a people pleaser essentially. She’s been built to please Him and even when she becomes emotional, she’s still doing it and that happens, it’s a human thing as well isn’t it? That does make your identity slip away in a way because of the nature of the coercive control.

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