PLAYING IT COEL

ichaela Coel has one enormous eye, looming at me like a cyclops. She’s deliberately pushing different parts of her face at her laptop camera – “Boom!” – trying to make me laugh (it works). The award-winning Coel has been laying low since the genre-shattering TV series I May Destroy You came out during lockdown last year. Having admitted that she wanted to run away when it came out – “I struggle with that bit … I tend to go somewhere to hide” – she’s come off social media, stopped giving interviews for a little while. But in person, laying low is not