Michaela Coel is about to star within the ten-episode drama collection First Day on Earth. Along with starring, the multi-award-winning actress may also write and govt produce the deliberate collection that’s being co-produced by HBO and the BBC.
What’s First Day on Earth about?
Coel is about to painting British novelist Henri, whose skilled and private life appears to be going nowhere. Per the movieβs synopsis, when sheβs βsupplied a job on a movie in Ghana, West Africa β her mother and fatherβ homeland, the place her estranged father lives β she willβt resist the possibility to reconnect with him and the nation of her heritage. However when she arrives neither the job nor her father prove the way in which she anticipated, and shortly Henri has to take care of hazard and hypocrisy, type new friendships, lose her illusions, and create a brand new sense of identification β one which may depart her stronger, however may additionally break her.β
The presentβs extra govt producers embody Successionβs Jesse Armstrong, Such Courageous Womenβ Phil Clarke, and Roberto Troni for Numerous Artists Restricted (VAL), Jo McClellan for the BBC, and Piers Wenger for A24.
βI’m delighted to be working with VAL, HBO and the BBC once more, and to accomplice with A24; due to all of their mixed style, care and experience, I really feel our present is in nice palms,β stated Coel. ββFirst Day on Earthβ is one other very private story for me which I hope will have interaction viewers from all around the world, and I canβt watch for audiences to go on Henriβs journey along with her.β
Greatest identified for her position as Tracey Gordon within the E4 sitcom Chewing Gum, Coel went on to star in episodes of Black Mirror (Nosedive and USS Callister), the psychological thriller Black Earth Rising, and HBOβs I Could Destroy You. Her movie credit embody Monsters: Darkish Continent, Star Wars: The Final Jedi, Been So Lengthy, and Black Panther: Wakanda Endlessly.Β
Filming on First Day on Earth is scheduled to start subsequent yr.
