“Life is tricky enough navigating being a woman, being a Black woman, being a dark-skinned woman in England on television. “I don’t look anymore, because it doesn’t seem like a smart thing to do.” She squeals a high-pitched laugh.
“Luckily I put that into, well, church and now into writing.”Ĭoel on her appearance: “Chewing Gum was probably the time when I looked for people’s opinions, and some of it hurt quite a lot,” she says.
I MAY DESTROY YOU CREATOR CROSSWORD SERIES
I’m sure there could have been a version of this series where it was so distasteful to…survivors of sexual assault…But I wonder whether just having the personal experience of it means that you have a level of empathy but also a level of-I’m not here to just sit in an echo chamber listening to violin strings about my pain, because I need to move…I can’t just sit here.”Ĭoel on her rebellious youth: “It was probably a sign that my brain was creating, creating, creating and thinking around loopholes,” says Coel.
I think it’s just the mode that I write in. “It feels like a performance, and that’s what it is, isn’t it? A journey.”Ĭoel on finding humor in the pain of her assault: “There’s a strange line, isn’t there? And I don’t know where that line is,” says Coel. She’s dressed in a black T-shirt, her hair scooped into a high, corn-rowed ponytail, a hazy reflection of light behind her. “I know the show feels like in some way a risk, but maybe every show is like that,” Coel says, speaking from a sofa in her new apartment. She conjoined her reality with that of Arabella and wrote from experience about sexual assault, giving the subject the heft and tension needed. As creator, star, executive producer and showrunner, Coel didn’t just occupy a role on-screen. Viewers feel a new disorienting sensation each episode as Coel’s character, Arabella, a millennial writer prone to fluent monologues, relives the nightmare of being stripped of her memories and attempts to map out flashbacks from the night she was drugged and raped. There has never been a series like it on television-a harrowing 12-episode dramedy around consent that unravels like a mystery. There is no complete picture at the end of “I May Destroy You” but rather a loose assemblage of images in lieu of clean resolutions.
I MAY DESTROY YOU CREATOR CROSSWORD TV
With “I May Destroy You,” the risky new TV series about consent, its writer-director-actor-showrunner–executive producer turned a narrative about trauma into one of hope, inspiring audiences and change in the industry. Magazine’s TELEVISION INNOVATOR of the Year!
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