British creator Nicole Leckie said streamers didn’t understand the nuances behind the BAFTA award-winning BBC drama. mood When she was promoting the show.
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The BAFTA-winning musical drama has been broadcast for almost two years and is based on the one-woman play Leckie. Superho. It has received strong reviews from critics for its originality and understanding of social media culture This is going to hurt It won a BAFTA Award for Best Mini Series last year.
“The streamers wanted to say: ‘This is about one thing and we can market to a very specific audience,'” Leckie said at today’s Outside the Box event in London. “By doing that, the nuance and specificity was removed if it was a mixed-race girl in London. The streamers didn’t really understand that in the way free TV does.”
Get lost in the middle
Leckie praised public broadcasters but highlighted the difficulties of being a talent from an underrepresented background to reach a “middle point” in her career, which the industry “is not good at”.
“(The industry) is great with emerging talent, and you can be very successful (at the top) but in the middle you get a little lost along the way,” Leckey said. “Once you have a little success, you have to be a ‘beacon of diversity’ or participate in certain stories. You can get pigeonholed and there’s a lot of pressure.”
Production companies “will send you the same book from the same Black person,” Leckey said, assuming that you as a diverse talent will want to be involved in the project. She said she “relates” to the Jeffrey Wright film american fantasy, which follows a frustrated novelist who writes a satire of stereotypical “noir” books, only for the liberal elite to mistake them for serious literature.
“You have to know what stories matter to you and what your vision is,” Leckie said.
She was speaking on Outside the Box, which also features the likes of ITN boss Rachel Jope and former BBC presenter Andrew Marr.