Michaela Coel Says She Turned Down $1 Million To Bring ‘I May Destroy You’ To Netflix
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etcanada.comMichaela Coel isn’t about to give away the rights to her creation. In a candid interview with Vulture, the “I May Destroy You” creator opened up about her life, career and how her HBO show almost had a home at Netflix.
RELATED: ‘Black Mirror’ Star Michaela Coel Was ‘Sexually Assaulted By Strangers’ As Coel explained, Netflix offered her a $1 million deal to produce the series for the streaming service, but she turned them down when she learned that Netflix would retain 100 per cent of the copyright.
She later fired her agency in the U.S., who had pushed her to take the deal. It came to a head when Coel proposed to a senior-level Netflix executive that she get just 5 per cent of the copyright. “There was just silence on the phone,” she
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