How Michaela Coel s Work Displays The Limitlessness Of Black Britishness
Throughout Michaela’s career there is a clear thread: A dedication to showing Black creativity exists in infinite ways.
Grey’s Anatomy and
Killing Eve actress Sandra Oh made headlines after discussing the extent to which the UK lags behind regarding diversity in Film and TV. Speaking with fellow actress Kerry Washington for Variety’s Actors on Actors series she stated that “the development of people [of color] behind the camera is very slow in the UK. I don’t know about the rest of Europe. Sometimes it would be me and 75 white people and I have not come from that”.
Louis Talpe (in pink jersey), The Racer Damon Smith
George Clooney and Caoilinn Springall, The Midnight Sky
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THE MIDNIGHT SKY (Cert 12, 122 mins, streaming from December 23 exclusively on Netflix, Sci-Fi/Drama/Action/Romance)
IN FEBRUARY 2049, three weeks after a global catastrophe known as “the event”, scientist Augustine Lofthouse (George Clooney) lives out his final days alone at the Barbeau Observatory in the Arctic Circle, one of the few places yet to be choked by dangerously high levels of radiation.
He performs blood transfusions to counter the cancer ravaging his body and awaits the inevitable, until he stumbles upon a young girl named Iris (Caoilinn Springall) left behind in the evacuation.