{"id":25619,"date":"2021-06-07T16:41:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=25619"},"modified":"2021-06-07T16:41:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:41:44","slug":"michaela-coel-baftas-maximilian","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/michaela-coel-baftas-maximilian\/","title":{"rendered":"Michaela Coel Wins Big In Maximilian At The BAFTAs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michaela Coel, accepting the Best Mini-Series award for “I May Destroy You”. Photo by David M. Benett\/Dave Benett\/Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Okay, let us just go on record and say that Michaela Coel’s<\/a> autobiographical HBO<\/a> Drama I May Destroy You <\/em><\/a>is honestly one of the greatest pieces of television in the past few decades. It was sincere, honest, emotionally raw and challenged the traditional format of TV. The BBC drama (which also premiered on HBO in the United States) was inspired by Coel\u2019s own experience of sexual assault. Not only was the show a cultural phenomenon last year but it really started a widespread conversation in terms of discussing sexual assault as it affects Black women. And though the show was largely snubbed by critics stateside<\/a>, at last night’s pre-recorded British Academy of Film and Television Arts<\/a> award ceremony, Coel took home the Leading Actress award for her role as Arabella, in I May Destroy You<\/em>, as well as the award for best Mini-Series. In her acceptance speech, Coel thanked\u00a0the series’ intimacy director, Ita O’Brien, saying:\u00a0\u201cI want to dedicate this award to the director of intimacy Ita O\u2019Brien.\u00a0Thank you for your existence in our industry, for making the space safe for creating physical, emotional, and professional boundaries so that we can make work about exploitation, loss of respect, about abuse of power, without being exploited or abused in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

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