![]() She can’t remember the evening, her housemates reckon she got spiked, and Simon’s ghosting her. That picture leads her to an address: Alissa’s (Ann Akin). Bella takes a photo of his receipts in the app. With this new information, she returns to Simon, whose story of an Uber doesn’t add up. With Ben (Stephen Wight), Bella continues to interrogate her own recollections of the evening, which don’t match her bank statements - they put her in a different place entirely from where she remembers being. Terry, meanwhile, has a pretty horrendous audition during which she’s asked to take her weave out by a dismissive white woman. But Biagio (Marouane Zotti) is video-calling and another flashback to an ATM withdrawal complicates the matter further. Terry thinks Bella just needs to stop watching YouTube videos about memories that haven’t really happened and get some sleep. Nothing is making sense, but as the episode’s title insists, “Someone Is Lying”. Simon (Aml Ameen) is being coy about how the evening ended. Her friend Terry (Weruche Opia) seems skeptical. She can’t remember how any of this happened. Bella’s off her food, has a cut on her head, has broken her phone, and keeps having weird flashbacks of an odd man aggressively thrusting in a toilet cubicle. “There’s no forced dialogue,” he describes, “it’s all natural.I May Destroy You episode 2 rejoins Arabella (Michaela Coel) on the morning after the night before, but she - and indeed the tone of the whole show - are not the same as they were before. Meyers remembers her stating that “:even my angels have horns and my devils have wings.” Eliminating the distinction of heroes and villains is part of what Meyers believes sets the series apart and cements it as honest storytelling. “It’s the grey areas in between that are interesting.” Coel ensured that even her own role, Arabella, was not always operating on the moral high ground. “There are no goodies and baddies,” explains Meyers. One of the elements that makes the series so unique, and so real, is that every character makes massive mistakes. “Sometimes collaborations can be a little rocky, but this wasn’t. But he praises Coel for her collaborative nature throughout the process. “There were always a couple that we called our delinquent children,” suggests the producer of a few scripts that took longer to finesse. Instead it was an approximately 90 day process of filming all 12 episodes, with little captured in chronological order. It was a complex filming schedule because it wasn’t broken up into episodes like many TV schedules. ![]() “The scripts were never finished,” jokes Meyers, noting that the writing process continued throughout the shoot. This doesn’t mean that the process was simple. SEE Paapa Essiedu interview: ‘I May Destroy You’ “It’s that true, and that entertaining, and funny at the same time,” he describes. He was struck by Coel’s ability to dive into serious topics without getting dragged into pure misery. “As soon as I read it I thought… I’ve been waiting to read this voice for years,” reveals Meyers. Watch the exclusive video interview above. “It just had heart and truth,” he explains. “There is a social comment on virtually every aspect of modern life,” says Simon Meyers of “I May Destroy You.” The producer was compelled to help bring the HBO limited series to life thanks to the unique perspective writer and star Michaela Coel brought to her scripts. Simon Meyers interview: ‘I May Destroy You’ producer
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