K.J. Yossman Michaela Coel, who wrote and starred in hit BBC/HBO drama “I May Destroy You,” dedicated the second of her two BAFTA Television awards to the show’s intimacy director, Ita O’Brien.Coel collected two golden masks this evening: one for mini-series and another for leading actress.
While she used her first speech, for mini-series, to thank the cast and crew, the second time she ascended the stage — to pick up her leading actress award — she singled out O’Brien, saying: “I want to dedicate this award to the director of intimacy 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.
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