On the subject of the camera, Phoebe Waller-Bridge told the Guilty Feminist, "I had worked out halfway through writing it that the camera was the pressure, was the witness, and that she had put the pressure on herself in the camera watching her that she has to put on this front. So even though she's like "Oh fuck it I don't give a shit I can do what I want," that's her coping mechanism from feeling like she's being watched all the time, which a lot of women do say they that they feel like they've just constantly got eyes on them, judging every movement or piece of clothing or whatever they make, and the relationship between her and the camera is a relationship with her and the idea of being judged. But even though the camera's not necessarily judging her she thinks it is, so that's why she's constantly having to be like "Give a shit?" and crying her eyes out when she looks away.
The presenter at the women's lecture is Phoebe Waller-Bridge's mother in real life.