Michaela Coel delivered a powerful acceptance speech after she won the Leading Actress gong at Sunday night’s 2021 BAFTA TV Awards.
Coel, who was honoured as the creator and star of “I May Destroy You”, dedicated the award to the show’s intimacy coordinator: Ita O’Brien. “Thank 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,” she shared.
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