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Michaela Coel
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I don't write with this thing in the back of my head about carrying the weight of young black women on my shoulders.
Michaela Coel
Women
Black
Young
Back
Carrying
About
Write
Weight
Head
Shoulders
Thing
I took what I was given in Christianity and put it into my secular, hedonistic life.
Michaela Coel
Life
Secular
Christianity
Took
Given
Put
Hedonistic
The idea of wanting to do something that's completely natural and then having to repress it is something that I find fascinating.
Michaela Coel
Natural
Find
Something
Having
Idea
Repress
Wanting
Then
Fascinating
I don't think we should be presentable or present ourselves for the sake of others.
Michaela Coel
Think
Others
Ourselves
Sake
Should
Present
When I was 18, I suddenly became very, very religious. I became an evangelical Christian; I was celibate for five years.
Michaela Coel
Christian
Religious
Became
Years
Very
Five
Celibate
Evangelical
Suddenly
I wrote a play at drama school, which was a dark comedy - people laughed and cried. And then my script of one of the shows was picked up by a comedy sketch company... so then I had to write comedy.
Michaela Coel
People
Dark
School
Comedy
Cried
Drama
Drama School
Laughed
Write
Had
Picked
Wrote
Up
Which
Script
Sketch
Then
Company
Shows
Play
I'm way too honest. It can backfire.
Michaela Coel
Too
Way
Honest
One thing I am quite passionate about is the absence of dark-skinned women in the media, so I have a passion to show dark-skinned women as beautiful, as vulnerable, as people who can be sexually desired and loving people, because it is never really seen on TV.
Michaela Coel
Beautiful
Women
People
Passion
Seen
TV
One Thing
Sexually
About
Absence
Never
Because
Vulnerable
Am
Passionate
Quite
Loving
Really
Show
Who
Media
Thing
Desired
There's Psalms that tell you things that nobody tells you - that you're fearfully and wonderfully made, that you're beautiful, that you have worth, basically.
Michaela Coel
Beautiful
You
Worth
Made
Tell
Tells
Nobody
Wonderfully
Psalms
Things
Basically
I've been bullied about my appearance since forever.
Michaela Coel
About
Since
Bullied
Been
Forever
Appearance
I didn't know I was going to write for TV until I was suddenly writing for TV, so that kind of stuff can bewilder you.
Michaela Coel
You
Writing
Kind
TV
Write
Stuff
Know
Until
Going
Suddenly
I went to drama school, where you learn to clown around a bit. You're walking around in leotards every day for three years, and you're taught clowning and mask work.
Michaela Coel
Work
Day
You
Every Day
School
Three
Mask
Clown
Every
Drama
Drama School
Bit
Learn
Around
Years
Walking
Taught
Where
Clowning
'Chewing Gum' ages me 15 years every time I do it - it's insane.
Michaela Coel
Time
Me
Every
Every Time
Insane
Gum
Years
Chewing
Chewing Gum
Ages
I actually thank God for television... it's not technology, it's storytelling. Technology is saying, 'Do less, do less, do less.' And I don't think it's healthy, no.
Michaela Coel
God
Saying
Technology
Thank God
Healthy
Think
Television
Thank
Storytelling
Less
Actually
I love Jeremy Corbyn, definitely.
Michaela Coel
Love
Definitely
Jeremy
I don't actually believe in the genre of comedy. Sometimes when I watch comedies, I can't see the soul of the show. I want to be able to laugh and cry. That is where the magic is. I'm trying to get to that place.
Michaela Coel
Soul
Sometimes
Comedy
Believe
Laugh
See
Able
Magic
Cry
Comedies
Genre
Get
Trying
Where
Want
Place
Show
Actually
Watch
The environment on the 'Chewing Gum' set is where everyone can work to the best of their abilities and everyone is happy. So, if I'm not happy with something, I've learnt that you don't start flailing about; you go in quietly, and there's a conversation.
Michaela Coel
Work
Best
You
Conversation
Happy
Everyone
Gum
Ability
About
Something
Environment
Learnt
Go
Chewing
Chewing Gum
Quietly
Flailing
Where
Start
Set
'Chewing Gum' is the London that I know.
Michaela Coel
Gum
London
Know
Chewing
Chewing Gum
I definitely believe in spirituality. I like to pray, but I'm not praying to something that I can define; I'm just speaking because I know it does have an effect.
Michaela Coel
Spirituality
Believe
Define
Definitely
Something
Like
Know
Because
Does
Pray
Praying
Effect
Just
Speaking
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