Inhabiting a world that is typically only depicted through tales of gang violence on screen, Coel presented an alternative view through the lived experiences of those in urban, working-class areas, without relying on the negative connotations such places have to drive narrative. DAVID I MAY DESTROY YOU SERIESCoel revealed that while writing series two of her hit comedy Chewing Gum she was drugged and sexually assaulted by a group of strangers. Less than ten minutes after telling that anecdote, she went on to stoically detail the events that serve as the premise for her latest show, I May Destroy You. To those who chose the location, it was an easy, low-budget option for the production's diverse team members, it wasn't worth the savings. No thought had been put in to how the country's culture might respond to diversity. Instead, she explained how, on a shoot abroad, locals threw rocks at her and her “misfit” colleagues. The instinct is to assume she was referring to the tragedy of those voices not being heard in mainstream media. “The lack of varied perspective among producers, the lack of misfits producing telly can have catastrophic consequences,” Michaela Coel told an audience as she became the fifth woman and the first black person to deliver the prestigious MacTaggart Lecture at 2018’s Edinburgh International Television Festival.
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