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The idea came to her at the Edinburgh TV festival, where a psychologist said that 66% of schoolgirls that year had said they wanted to be a Wag.
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In 2011, she published her first novel, Pride and Premiership, partly inspired by her experience of being married to professional footballer, Mark Bright, for a decade until 2008.
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But these were ‘firsts’ and there was a lot of fear around how we would be received around the country beyond London, in areas that aren’t so diverse.” I make it very clear to my boys how to treat a woman, what a woman stands for, how they should be viewed
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Looking back, does she think the Taverniers were quite basic in their characterisation – a series of types and maybe even cliches? “Of course it was basic because I grew up in London, in Harlesden, where most people are black, Asian or Irish. Her character in the soap, Hattie Tavernier, was part of Albert Square’s first Black British family, a watershed moment for representation in mainstream TV. I never regretted it – it was the right thing to do.” They said absolutely don’t leave EastEnders because this might not work out. “I knew that I was taking a risk because my record company told me not to do it. Still, it takes nerve to leave a prime-time soap opera, as Gayle did when she exited EastEnders, to embark on a singing career. I’ve done it from a very young age so for me it would feel strange to choose one and cut another off.” I wonder what she considers herself to be first and foremost? “I’ve never looked at myself in that way. Alongside her current West End gig, she is writing an episode of Sky’s A Discovery of Witches and developing a show for a TV channel. Gayle is an actor, Brit-nominated singer, novelist, script-writer, reality TV star and – perhaps most quirkily – was a contender in the Eurovision song contest. The TV companies and production companies that posted black squares last summer will be held to account, 100%.” I believe that they will be held to account and we will not take the foot off the gas as actors of colour, because we’re discussing things that we shouldn’t even have needed to discuss. I think there’s been reflection, but we’ve yet to see that reflected on screen.
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“TV is playing catch-up and it needs to play catch-up. Photograph: Mick Hutson/RedfernsĪs someone who began life on TV at a tender age – first in Grange Hill as a teenager in 1988 and then EastEnders – she feels that the theatre industry is ahead in the game. Nineties pop star … Michelle Gayle on stage. We are living in a new world where diversity is on everyone’s agenda but does Gayle feel the industry has corrected itself significantly since last summer’s black square pledges to do better from theatres and TV production companies? “I think people are starting to be bolder, and I think they realise that true allyship is about being bolder.” It’s a shame that you have to be brilliant to end that conversation, but there are enough brilliant black actors out there.” When someone of the quality of Noma steps up, no one’s got anything more to say and then the conversation’s dead. “She got through that with incredible grace and proved she was there on merit because she’s a bloody good actress but she had to take a big hit online to do that.
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“I owe her a lot of gratitude – I’m standing on her shoulders,” says Gayle. Dumezweni won an Olivier award for the part. JK Rowling piled in to the furore to defend the casting and call out the complaints as racist.
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The whole cast is ecstatic to be back, she says, but they are also whispering about how tired they feel.Įxhaustion aside, she speaks of her debt to Noma Dumezweni, whose casting in 2016 sparked online outrage from some at the prospect of a Black Hermione. Sitting in a chintzy backroom of the Palace theatre now, she talks in athletic terms about 12-hour rehearsal days and re-building her stamina.
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M ichelle Gayle was 10 months into her role as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child last March – and in such full swing that she was in “total denial” of the pandemic – when the West End closed its doors.