I May Destroy You creator Michaela Coel has admitted she’s “lost friends” after deciding not to cast them in her projects.
The actor and writer first broke through with the 2015 hit Chewing Gum, about a sex-obsessed virgin, but it was her critically acclaimed 2020 drama I May Destroy You that catapulted her into the spotlight. The blistering Bafta and Emmy-winning show was a semi-autobiographical comedy-drama about a young writer named Arabella, played by Coel, whose life is changed when she is spiked and raped.