Michaela Coel (I May Destroy You / Chewing Gum / Black Earth Rising) • Friday Rewind
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 106 minutes
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This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Michaela Coel twice, originally episode 129 from 2016-12-14, and episode 238 from 2018-11-07.
Below are the original writeups for context - enjoy this double feature look back in to the past with Michaela!
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Part 1:
From her early days knocking around Tower Hamlets in a pentecostal upbringing, and how a psalm triggered her interests in poetry, Michaela gets deep into what added up to her present day self, as a multi-talented and well respected TV heavy hitter - from her take on reading and books in general, to spirituality and where she's at with it all now, drama school, reality TV, Uber and its complex personal social code of conduct, how she was discovered on stage, right through to where we find her now as star of 'Aliens', 'Chewing Gum' (and writer of, of course) and 'Black Mirror'... A perfect and full on satisfying listen so go on and get on that immediately!
Part 2:
What exactly HASN’T she been doing since she was last on? Good lord… Michaela is unquestionably smashing it right now (and has been for a minute), starring in two Black Mirror episodes, feature film Been So Long, BBC drama Black Earth Rising and a lil’ indie grindhouse flick called Star Wars: The Last Jedi, no biggie. We can only dream of what she’ll be unveiling when we hopefully see her next time on here! A bunch of awesome ground is covered of course, in not that long, including her humble but confident, responsive social media outlook, carving her own paths growing up, the intentions behind any given script, not wasting time on things that don’t mean much to you, the hit series Black Earth Rising and the much loved director, heroes and villains, learning about Africa and all the education that came with Black Earth Rising, TV license and the value of it, John Goodman, handling heavier scenes and TONS tons more! Enjoy - you shall!
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| 0:00.0 | in Mo Clue, in Mo Clue, in Mo Clue. We're back for another distraction piece's Rewind Gang, |
| 0:06.0 | and this one's a bit of a bumper episode, because it's with Michaela Cole, who I think is one of |
| 0:12.8 | the all-time greats, but Michaela's been on the podcast twice, first back in 2016, and then again in |
| 0:20.7 | 2018. And I thought rather than annoy you with just |
| 0:26.0 | an insane amount of episodes that say Michaela Cole and you don't know which one's which |
| 0:31.7 | I thought we'd just put them them both together so we're going to start obviously with |
| 0:36.8 | Michaela Cole coming on the podcast in |
| 0:39.1 | 2016. Again, I think it's another one. Might have been their first podcast appearance. No, actually, |
| 0:44.7 | I think either before this one or before the last, the second one, I listened to them on a really |
| 0:50.8 | good podcast. So I think we talk about that but yeah let's get into this as |
| 0:55.7 | explained before we're doing these rewind episodes because we've been doing an episode a week for a |
| 1:01.0 | decade now and it's quite reasonable to think that you look aren't going to scroll all the way |
| 1:06.4 | through imagine that just scrolling back and back and back over 600 episodes to see who jumps out. |
| 1:12.2 | There's going to be people that you've not realised of been on. |
| 1:15.6 | And we're going to have had people on before you knew who they were, which is the case where |
| 1:20.4 | a lot of these. |
| 1:21.0 | Last week's episode with Barry Keogun was from 2018 before a lot of people knew of Barry. |
| 1:26.5 | And yeah, this was when Michaela was first blowing people's |
| 1:30.6 | minds. So let's start with episode 129 from 2016. And then I'll pop back and introduce the second |
| 1:39.2 | half of this too. But all going to be in one thing. Just sit down and enjoy a really long, long bonus episode for a year. |
| 1:46.8 | Okay, let's go. |
| 1:47.9 | This is The Distraction Pieces Rewind with Michaela Cole from 2016. |
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