Michaela Coel tries to guess her own lines, forgets the one she actually wrote

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Michaela Coel tries to guess her own lines, forgets the one she actually wrote
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It's hard remembering what you've written sometimes. Especially when you're as prolific as Michaela Coel.

The writer and creator of the brilliant, unmissable new BBC drama I May Destroy You joined Nick Grimshaw on BBC Radio 1 for a game of trying to remember her lines from her various film and TV roles.

Coel had no problem at all remembering her lines from Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Top Boy, and Black Mirror. But when it came to remember her line from Chewing Gum — the Channel 4 comedy she wrote and starred in — she fell into a spot of bother.

"I have no idea," Coel says.

"You wrote it! You were the only writer on Chewing Gum, am I right? And then you said it!" said Grimshaw.

"I literally can't remember, I've got no idea," Coel said.

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Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.


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