. MichaelaCoel talks with danikwateng about cancel culture, unconscious bias, and her new book 'Misfits'
There’s something incredibly intimate about the way Michaela Coel writes. The British-Ghanaian multihyphenate synthesizes moments into clear scenes where time and space are crystallized for all of us to be right there with her. She’s brilliant. And she’s once again mastered the talent of storytelling in her debut book,In 2018 Michaela gave an Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart lecture that would be the catalyst for this book that interrogates the entertainment industry.
The problem is sometimes that doesn't happen, and then it makes it worthless. So I think we have to strive as members of these academies … to keep the authenticity. And then the value remains, even if that means the award does not go to whatever star that the majority of people know, but the award goes to a film like, a really beautiful film written by Theresa Ikoko.
TV: Cancel culture in general, I'm always interested in how much it's actually helping the person being canceled, develop into a better person, or are they changing because of shame?Yeah. Or the other thing it can do is make someone ... If you label someone that you can also make them lean into that label and then find a community of like-minded people. "So you're calling me a racist? All right. I'm just going to go look for the racists, I'm going to sit into this.
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