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![]() ![]() Coel writes: “Moths disturb me, my peace and my flow, with their incessant fluttering. The book opens with Coel rather flippantly describing her hatred of moths and her habit of killing them. Whenever she encounters one, she sprays it with moth-killer until it falls dead to the floor. As she addresses her personal experiences as a beginning writer and actress in the often overwhelming TV industry, it is a shocking and eye opening book, but nonetheless filled with uplifting confidence, hope and honesty. Misfits: A Personal Manifesto is the remediation of her lecture on paper, to which Coel’s reflection on its writing process and what it revealed to her is added. While Coel delivered the lecture with calm and poise, the content was called “ground breaking”, “business shaking”, and a “hand grenade” by the media (Wright, Sejean). She was invited to give the 43rd MacTaggart Lecture at the 2018 Edinburgh TV Festival, before 4000 industry professionals. In between winning BAFTA’s and an Emmy for Chewing Gum and I May Destroy You something important of a different order happened to her. ![]() ![]() After this, she landed roles in Black Earth Rising and Been So Long, before writing and starring in the impactful I May Destroy You in 2020. Michaela Coel’s star has been rising ever since she arrived on the television scene in 2015 with Chewing Gum, a show she wrote and starred in. ![]()
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