Michaela Coel has introduced her first new sequence since I Might Destroy You, which she is engaged on with Succession showrunner Jesse Armstrong.
Coel’s new sequence is titled First Day On Earth, a brand new 10-part drama set to air on BBC One and co-produced by HBO in affiliation with A24. Armstrong will function an govt producer on the present.
Coel performs British novelist Henri, who goes to her dad and mom’ dwelling nation of Ghana after she’s provided a movie job there. It doesn’t simply provide the chance for change she’s crying out for, however an opportunity to reconnect along with her estranged father.
Nevertheless, per a synopsis, “neither the job nor her father end up the way in which she anticipated, and shortly Henri has to cope with hazard and hypocrisy, kind new friendships, lose her illusions, and create a brand new sense of identification – one which may depart her stronger, however may additionally break her.”
“I’m delighted to be working with VAL, the BBC and HBO once more, and to companion with A24; because of all of their mixed style, care and experience, I really feel our present is in nice palms,” Coel stated in a press launch. “The method of making FDOE to this point has been a fantastically intimate expertise, and I’m excited to embark on the subsequent section to finally provide this as one other televisual reward for anybody prepared to accompany Henri on what can be a wild odyssey!”
Filming on First Day On Earth will start subsequent yr.
In a four-star overview of I Might Destroy You, NME wrote: “It’s an eye-opening, game-changing new present from certainly one of Britain’s brightest skills. Coel performs her character brilliantly, with defiant wit and nuance. The terrible issues that occur to Arabella aren’t reserved for folks in fictional tales or clichéd horror motion pictures. I Might Destroy You urges us to care for ourselves – as a result of if we don’t, who else will?”
