“I don’t understand it. They should have recognized her. With the Emmys, if I have anything to do with it … . There’s very little as important as what Michaela’s done,” Fonda said. The series, based on Coel’s own experience, follows her character as she tries to put together the pieces in the aftermath of her sexual assault.
Fonda also said she watched the series several times. “She’s a true artist. An observer of life,” Fonda said. “I mean, the way that she filmed the last episode where she did so many versions of her with the rapist, I just had to keep watching it because I would be thinking about a scene and [go], ‘Wait, wait. Did I make a mistake?’ Whoa. Michaela’s got a sense of the truth. It’s somatic.” “I May Destroy You” may not have received any Golden Globes love, but it did earn a Producers Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Producer of Limited Series Television. Coel directed nine of the British-American series’ 12 episodes, including the finale praised by Fonda. But Fonda, in the Harper’s interview, said that while she is inspired by Coel, she’s unlikely to ever direct herself. “I’m not a good leader. I look like a leader, but I’m not. I’m very uncomfortable being out front. What I love about movie-making or television is the collaborative part of it, people working together. I never liked to be the head. I freeze,” she said. Fonda, outside of her ongoing activism work, will next be seen opposite LIly Tomlin in the seventh and final season of Netflix’s beloved comedy “Grace and Frankie.” Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.
