I MAY DESTROY YOU PARENTS GUIDE TV
And I have a habit of writing some sort of piece that's inspired by reality, whether it's poetry or music or a one-woman play or a TV show.
I MAY DESTROY YOU PARENTS GUIDE SERIES
What - why did you want to write a series where rape and various forms of sexual assault are at the center of the story?ĬOEL: I think in the beginning, I wanted to write about it because it had happened. So I just keep looking to my mom instead of becoming very anxious. And she's really, you know, in very good spirits and quite excited that she's able to contribute to tackling the problem. And I try to look to how she behaves to guide how I behave.
But my mom is actually a nurse on the frontlines. I think we're the third in terms of how big the impact has been and how much it spreads here. So are you basically just staying home?ĬOEL: Yes, Festival Heights (ph) area.
Before we really get into things, like, how are you? How are you doing during the pandemic? I haven't been following closely how things are in London. GROSS: Michaela Coel spoke to us from her home in London. I'm just saying that we should refrain from talking about things like they're facts and we should probably just be careful. So I should probably pay attention to that.ĬOEL: (As Arabella) Yeah because we don't know. It may not even be real because I'm the person that can actually see it, and I'm not sure. Other than the man in the.ĬOEL: (As Arabella) In my head. NILES: (As Officer Funmi) In this memory.ĬOEL: (As Arabella) You can't call it a memory. NILES: (As Officer Funmi) Do you see anyone else? I wouldn't - 'cause now you're calling it something that I never - I haven't said that. MICHAELA COEL: (As Arabella) The thing in my head.ĬOEL: (As Arabella) Yeah. SARAH NILES: (As Officer Funmi) And the assault, you recall. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "I MAY DESTROY YOU") Here's Michaela Coel as Arabella and Sarah Niles as the police officer who speaks first. She calls these flashing images the thing in my head. She's not sure they're actually a memory. She tries to answer the policewoman's questions but still isn't sure what the flashbacks of the man on top of her mean. Let's start with a clip from "I May Destroy You." The young writer Arabella, suspecting she's been raped, goes to the police station to report it. Nevertheless, some listeners may find that part of the discussion too disturbing. Before we start my interview with Michaela Coel, I want you to know that part of our discussion will be about sexual assault but nothing explicit. Coel also starred in the Netflix series "Black Earth Rising" playing a young woman saved from the Rwandan genocide. Michaela Coel was assaulted in a similar way when she was writing and starring in her first TV series, "Chewing Gum." That was a comedy about a naive 24-year-old in East London desperately trying to lose her virginity. As the series goes on, she tries to cope with the assault's profound effects on her life while also trying to meet her publishing deadlines. She doesn't know if the man in this image is the man who raped her, and she's kind of in denial that she was raped. She has unsettling images in her mind that she can't shake of a man above her. She takes a break one night, goes for a drink with a friend and later regains consciousness with no memory of what happened. It made her famous on social media, but now she's trying to complete a draft for her second book.
"I May Destroy You" is a stylish, sometimes funny drama starring Coel as Arabella, a young writer whose first book, "Chronicles Of A Fed-Up Millennial," was published online. My guest, Michaela Coel, is the creator, writer, director and star of the new HBO series "I May Destroy You." The show is leading to a lot of conversation because it's about a subject that can be hard to talk about - rape - as well as forms of sexual assault that the victim may not even realize is assault.
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