'Chewing Gum' is a sitcom set on an estate in east London. Its central character is a girl from a Pentecostal background who decides to embark on a more worldly lifestyle - it's about adolescence 10 years too late. In… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, in Aldgate, east London, one of the poorest boroughs in the country, I saw lots that was real - the bankers with their briefcases, the man next door with five wives, the illegal immigrants in Flat… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
I think you just have to do you, whatever that is, and not feel like you have to be a certain way for other… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
My sets are not peaceful. It's a beautiful catastrophe. I am running around like a headless chicken. I don't sleep because I am writing.… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was going to write for TV until I was suddenly writing for TV, so that kind of stuff can bewilder… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
Looking back, the way I see it, there was something slightly deluded about my belief - what that meant to me - but with… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
Don't sit there and complain. Rub your hands together and figure out what to do. — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
I don't write with this thing in the back of my head about carrying the weight of young black women on my shoulders. — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
'Chewing Gum Dreams' should make you look twice at the girl shouting on the bus and not just cuss her off from your life. — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
I don't really go with the crowd. I'm the kind of person that if I heard some girls were bullying my friend in another… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
To see people laughing or crying or listening, then being inspired to do their own thing? I can't think of anything better than that. — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
Now I'm steeped in this world, I keep thinking going to the theatre every week is normal, but there's a whole world of people… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
What dominates my life isn't the fact that I started off doing theatre. It's probably to do with Christianity, my race, the class I… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
There's a massive community in church. You have a real home. You can move to different parts of the world and you'll always find… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
