The story of Michaela Coel

History-making Emmy winner, poet, sexual assault survivor ...  This is the life of Michaela Coel.

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00:00I would love to see more people who are from minority backgrounds, more women, more people

00:06who are overweight on TV. I want to see everyone. I want to see what I see when I walk down the street.

00:30Making television is really difficult and sometimes emotional, but not in a bad way,

00:37in a really necessary way, in a cathartic way that I wouldn't change for the world.

01:00I define my life. I ain't gon' be no housewife. I'm too busy trying to find my destiny

01:07in American remnants of African history.

01:30You get ignored by basically everybody that is somebody and so this song is my

01:36dedication to the unsigned artist because it's hard out here and we don't have any money.

01:49I want to say thank you to everyone who came. We were full every night so that's fantastic

01:54and the matinee was packed as well so thank you very much for all the encouraging feedback

02:00I got from everyone. I really appreciate it.

02:12A lot of it is autobiographical so a lot of the stuff is just what happened in my school days.

02:25I love it. It's like Beyonce.

02:39Doing the show and wrapping the show was kind of like my,

02:43I don't know, yeah, a moment where I kind of realized this is kind of what I want to do.

02:46I just smashed your phone. I don't know. How did last night end?

03:05It was, to be honest, incredible. It really helped me get past some troubling stuff

03:14and what it enabled me to do is sort of pair something quite tragic with something quite

03:22beautiful. I would hope that I would be some kind of inspiration because I guess I wish I

03:40had more inspirational role models myself when I was growing up. Thank you very much. Bye.