![]() Still, Opia said she felt safe on the set during such harrowing moments, with intimacy coordinator Ita O’Brien serving as an architect for a comfortable environment during the show’s often graphic and disturbing sex scenes. In Episode 3 of “I May Destroy You,” Arabella and Terry meet up in Italy for a wild night out on the town that culminates in Terry experiencing her own discomfiting brush with being sexually exploited: She ends up entrapped in a threesome where, it turns out, both men knew each other without telling her. It helped that Coel and Opia became fast, very real friends while on the set, as the series takes them both to dark places that confront (for many, radical) notions of what consent looks like, and the grey areas within. Then we did a scene together, and it was just so realistic, very casual, and then after that, we just had a chat, and I remember leaving like I’d just been on an incredible first date because the chemistry was right there from the get.” As soon as I entered the room, it was kind of automatic, this energy in the air. But years later, she said, “I got the call for the audition for ‘I May Destroy You,’ I had two auditions before my final one with Michaela, which was more of a chemistry read. I would see her in the green room, with loads of people in there, but we didn’t have any one-on-one interaction,” Opia said. But well before the series began filming in 2019, Opia had a brush with creator Coel when they both had supporting roles in the 2013 British crime drama “Top Boy.” ![]() “I May Destroy You” is easily Opia’s biggest role yet, with the actress serving as Coel’s stumbling, party-loving sidekick. ![]() I can understand that world, how it can be a rotating door, just in and out, but it does pay off,” she said. “I love the fact at the end of the series that she does book a job, a commercial, which I’ve done quite a few of. She said before “I May Destroy You,” which has opened the door to being more choosy about her work: “I was taking everything and anything I could get, because a girl’s gotta eat.” (Next, she has a role in Francis Lawrence’s still-secret fantasy adventure film “Slumberland.”)īy the end of the 12-episode series, Terry does land a role, in one of several hopeful but never saccharine endings for the main characters. Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 35 Films the Director Wants You to See The Best 30 LGBTQ Movies and TV Shows Streaming on Netflix Right Now 'Succession' Starts Production on Season 4, Alexander Skarsgård Set as Main Waystar Contender I felt a connection and relatability to Terry in those instances where you just have to keep going on this dream.”ĭakota Johnson: HBO Should've 'Warned Us' About 'Heartbreaking' Portrayal of Tippi Hedren in 'The Girl' “I was lucky enough that I was still confident enough to go into the room every single time, even if I wasn’t going to get it anyway. “It’s been 10 years now, constantly going on auditions, constantly being told no,” the Nigerian actress told IndieWire on a phone call from London. ![]() Opia, a hopeful in the Limited Series Supporting Actress race, plays Terry as a scrappy rising actor struggling to land fulfilling roles, a challenge that Opia said she could easily run with. Vying in the Limited Series categories, the show is inspired by Coel’s own assault while writing her 2015 British comedy series “Chewing Gum.” While her character Arabella’s journey is the show’s emotional anchor, a supporting cast of friends including Terry ( Weruche Opia) and Kwame (Paapa Essiedu) experience their own encounters with sexual exploitation. Though HBO’s “ I May Destroy You” premiered more than a year ago, Michaela Coel’s existential sexual-assault odyssey remains of the Emmy race’s most provocative entries.
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