![]() During her lecture she laid bare the difficulties she'd had as a black woman in the industry, having been consistently undervalued and undermined by colleagues while making Chewing Gum, before telling the audience about her assault. It was an incident that she had first publicly spoken about when she was invited to give the James MacTaggart Lecture at the 2018 Edinburgh International Television Festival – the first black woman to do so. – Twenty-five series that define the 21st CenturyĪfter making two series of her broader, semi-autobiographical comedy Chewing Gum for Channel 4, and making a name for herself in acting roles in the likes of Black Mirror, Been So Long and Black Earth Rising, Coel made the extraordinarily brave decision to create a new show centred around the aftermath of a rape, loosely based on an assault that happened to her. – What makes The Wire such a great number one – The 100 greatest TV series of the 21st Century The 100 greatest TV series of the 21st Century: Warning: this article contains references to and discussion of sexual assault The evident point being that Coel's masterwork, which she famously wrote 191 drafts of, is so much more than a story about consent: it's a radical, funny, devastating show about race, art, trauma and rebirth. ![]() Speak up and share your huffy opinions in our famous forums where 5,000 showbiz leaders lurk every day to track latest awards buzz.In the penultimate episode of the BBC/HBO drama series I May Destroy You, a character turns to Michaela Coel's Arabella and for a moment seems to break the fourth wall to ask "I thought you were writing about consent?" Arabella, who is writer Coel's fictional on-screen alter-ego, shrugs, "So did I". Can you top our esteemed leaderboards next? Always remember to keep your predictions updated because they impact our latest racetrack odds, which terrify Hollywood chiefs and stars. Download our free and easy app for Apple/iPhone devices or Android (Google Play) to compete against legions of other fans plus our experts and editors for best prediction accuracy scores. PREDICT the Emmy winners until September 19 ![]() But how will that translate to wins? Coel could come away with an armful of trophies. Clearly it also struck a chord with Emmy voters, who nominated it nine times. And the show received bids from the Producers Guild, Motion Picture Sound Editors, and Costume Designers Guild. Coel and the series were nominated for Critics Choice Awards. ![]() Coel was nominated for a SAG Award for her performance. It won BAFTAs for Best Actress and Best Miniseries. Though “Destroy” aired an entire year ago, it has had impressive staying power in the minds of critics and industry professionals. And it’s always an advantage to have written every episode of the show - voters get to honor a collective writing achievement instead of having to pick one episode as “WandaVision” backers will have to do with that show’s three writing bids. She was inspired to create the series by her own experience of sexual assault turning her trauma into art may especially inspire the storytellers in the academy’s writers branch. Michaela Coel is one of this season’s most successful multi-hyphenate talents at the Emmys, earning nominations for writing, directing, producing, and starring in the HBO limited series “ I May Destroy You.” So will she follow in the footsteps of Phoebe Waller-Bridge (“ Fleabag“) and Dan Levy(“ Schitt’s Creek“), taking everything that’s not nailed down? Or will she miss out in all categories, as always happened to Lena Dunham (“Girls”)?Īs of this writing Coel is the odds-on favorite to win Best Movie/Limited Writing for penning the entire series, and the compelling story behind “Destroy” makes her especially tough to deny.
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