Monday, September 6, 2021

Emma Watson is a fan of Michaela Coel

 




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The Guardian remembers Emma exists! Yay!

Context: Michaela is an actor and also wrote Misfits: A Personal Manifesto. The Guardian interviews her to talk about the book and ends the article with questions coming from "readers and famous fans".

The famous people besides Emma are Olly Alexander, Louis Theroux, Arinzé Kene, Miranda July, Mae Martin, Roxane Gay (Emma picked one of her book for late Our Shared Shelf), Raven Leilani, David Lammy, Asif Kapadia, Shon Faye, George the Poet, and Lena Waithe.

And here's Emma's question and Michaela's answer:


What changes could the film and TV industry make to better ensure people on set feel protected, safe and respected? What more can be done to deepen people’s understanding of consent?

I think intimacy coordinators are really useful, especially when you allow them to do their jobs and don’t just hire them as lip service. If you let them do their job, they are the saviours of television sets. On I May Destroy You, we also had a therapist called Lou Platt on call at any time who you could contact. I called her when there were a couple of moments where the content was a little bit triggering and she was really helpful.

Consent is tricky. I think it goes beyond consent. I was talking to a new friend that I’ve made the other day and he was talking about saying: “Let me use a condom” because it makes it look like he doesn’t trust the woman. So he doesn’t talk about the condom, in case the woman thinks he thinks she’s a whore. And I was just like, “Oh, my God”, you know? It seems like everybody is afraid of communicating and afraid of being transparent… I wonder whether it’s to do with education. What are we teaching kids when they’re like 12, 13, because these things – or the lack of things that we teach them – will follow them into adulthood.



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15 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love Michaela so much. In real world enough people don't know her name and it is truly heart breaking g. Those stupid award functions nominated Emily in Paris instead of I may destroy you.

Anonymous said...

speaking of thats how, Eden did you see Emily in paris? was its view of Paris accurate they made it seem rather unfriendly lol

Eden said...

Haven't seen Emily in Paris yet, but the only times I hear about or see Paris it's on TV because of the protests so I wouldn't be the right person to answer the question anyway XD

Anonymous said...

The more insidious side of the consent issue is the phenomenon after the Harvey Weinstein case, men in managerial positions claiming they didn't want to be alone with a woman in case they were accused, like women are just waiting for an opportunity. Yet in the media it was portrayed like some horrifying consequence of demanding accountability that men were made to feel uncomfortable (only based on their own prejudice).

Anonymous said...

Every time something unfortunate thing happens to any man ,men will be like "wHeRe aRe tHe FeMiNiSTs? " Dude you go help that poor man first.
The problem is people don't understand consent. They don't get what is right and wrong. They are like it is okay for me then it will be also okay for her.

Anonymous said...

It's a shame that Emily in Paris team bribed the judges to get nominated, this boring soap opera had absolutely no business being nominated lol

Anonymous said...

I hated Emily in Paris even more after watching Deux Pour Cent. Deux Pour Cent is such a brilliant show. Now people will ruin that show by remaking it in every other country.

Anonymous said...

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Eden said...

"Eden, have you looked into Wordpress? It seems to have more powerful comment moderation features than Blogger, and you can import the entire blog to see if it would be better."

I did actually. I didn't feel like it would really change anything though. But thank you for the idea.

Anonymous said...

Wordpress has an option to only allow comments that have been previously approved. That might help but I don't know if it locks out non-approved commenters entirely or just requires a first-comment approval. I also don't know if it works for anonymous comments.

Anonymous said...

*only allow >commenters< that have been previously approved.

Eden said...

"*only allow >commenters< that have been previously approved."

That'd be great but I think it would require people to leave an ID. I think only a few people would agree.

Eden said...

Anon, I deleted the comments you wanted me to delete. I didn't understand that's what you were asking, sorry.

Anonymous said...

You're right, it would require an email-address, though not registration. It's worth keeping in mind. The spamming itself might drive people away.

Anonymous said...

"Anon, I deleted the comments you wanted me to delete. I didn't understand that's what you were asking, sorry."

Merci beaucoup!