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Prize winner Coel: Instructions from the intimacy coordinator »essential«
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The British series "I May Destroy You" dominated this year's British television awards.
The work by and with Michaela Coel won several awards at the Bafta Awards on Sunday evening, including for best mini-series, best director and best actress.
In a prepared speech, Coel specifically dedicated the award in the acting category to the intimacy coordinator of "I May Destroy You", Ita O'Brien.
She thanked the representative of the still relatively new professional group for making the set a safe place: »They create physical, emotional and professional boundaries so that we can create works about exploitation, lack of respect and abuse of power without being exploited in the process or to be abused. "
The twelve-part drama, which was released on BBC and HBO in the summer of 2020, is about the successful author Arabella, who struggles to find her way back to life after she was raped in a London bar.
Coel wrote the script and starred.
She knew how such a shoot would go without an intimacy coordinator, Coel said.
The dirty, shameful feeling, the inner destruction.
"Your instructions were essential for my series," said Coel in her acceptance speech to O'Brien.
Every production company should rely on this on-set support.
Despite four nominations, »The Crown« came away empty-handed
The successful Netflix series "The Crown", which was considered one of the favorites, was left empty-handed.
The series, which retells the life of the British royal family as fiction, was nominated in four categories.
The event took place partly online due to the corona pandemic.
The number of spectators on site was severely limited.
feb / AFP / AP / Reuters
