![]() First, she’s filming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and no, she can’t say anything about it: “I can say that I’m in the film now, but that’s it.” She’s also trying to write a new TV project (she’s keeping shtoom about that too) and she’s just published her 2018 MacTaggart lecture as a book, Misfits, A Personal Manifesto. “Do I really feel that?”Ĭoel is in the US, at her aunt and uncle’s house for a few days: “I love it!” She has a couple of projects on the go. Sometimes, she stops in the middle of an answer and asks herself questions, wondering out loud about whether she’s being honest enough: “Do I feel that?” she says. At formal events, she can present a serious front – face and body held still and dignified – but today she’s upbeat. She talks in long, descriptive sentences and even when she’s not messing with the camera, her face is always moving, her thoughts and emotions flooding her features. ![]() But in person, laying low is not Coel’s style. Having admitted that she wanted to run away when it came out – “I struggle with that bit… I tend to go somewhere to hide” – she’s come off social media, stopped giving interviews for a little while. The award-winning Coel has been laying low since the genre-shattering TV series I May Destroy You came out during lockdown last year. ![]() She’s deliberately pushing different parts of her face at her laptop camera – “Boom!” – trying to make me laugh (it works). M ichaela Coel has one enormous eye, looming at me like a cyclops. ![]()
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