Spend a Night In With November Cover Star Michaela Coel and Her ‘Day Ones’

I m very grateful cause um,

it s a very unusual circumstance to happen to a person.

Nice to celebrate with my day ones, you know?

[cheers]

Cheers, everybody, cheers!

Cheers!

I can t touch with everyone.

[acoustic music]

Yeah, it was sort of just like, why has everyone

just opened so much?

And then Nissa said, I think I m gonna walk

down the aisle to one of the tracks.

So I said, Let me just sit down,

put it in my ears and see.

We are celebrating the fact that

I have been ...

Come on.

Honored-

Come on.

To be on the cover of US Vogue.

US Vogue, come on!

Which is mad.

They asked me how I wanted to celebrate,

and I thought, why not cook food, eat it and play games?

Exactly.

Trying to make Kontomire, well, ish.

It s like Kontomire meets Egusi,

which is like Nigeria meets Ghana.

My mum literally taught me how to season

and put a chicken in the oven when I was like, 10.

I quite like the fact that I m making

something that she taught me,

but mine never tastes exactly like hers.

They asked me where I would like to shoot it,

and I thought to myself,

shoot for the stars, aim for the moon.

I said, Ghana.

And they were like, Sure.

Wow, have they done that before?

I don t think so.

It s the first Vogue cover in Ghana.

I mean like, you got to take a second to think

about the significance of that, right?

[Michaela] I shed tears.

You gotta shed tears.

[Michaela] Yeah, it was ...

This is an internationally renowned thing.

[Michaela] Yeah, my cousins were there.

In Ghana, in the place of your birth.

It s amazing.

[Michaela] I m one of those people that generally

doesn t process big events.

Yeah.

[Michaela] I probably still haven t processed

I May Destroy You, I probably haven t processed

Black Panther.

You know when you re like, British and Ghanaian,

and they re both these cultures that refuse compliments?

So, I can t accept the flowers that you re trying

to give me, but thank you so much.

[laughs]

[acoustic music]

Do you want me to take over this,

and you can go and get changed?

[Michaela] I ll change, then.

Thank you.

[soft instrumental hip hop]

[laughter]

Mwa, mwa!

Hello.

[crowd chatting]

So happy to see you.

Yeah?

You ve been ...

Thanks for coming, guys.

I guess it s a celebration of being

on the front cover of US Vogue.

It s not every day that Vogue US

go and shoot in Ghana.

[cheering]

Red stew, and then avocado in there?

[Michaela] Yeah, that s it.

Oh my gosh, it s barely oily.

Do you know about Kontomire?

No, that is a Ghanaian staple.

I actually want a meat pie.

[Michaela] We ve been friends ...

[Marissa] Since we were 11.

[Michaela] Yeah, what s that, 23, almost 24 years?

Yeah.

Oh my god, Marissa.

Yeah, that s like someone s lifetime.

We met on the first day when we all got into drama school.

[Michaela] Oh, yes, yes, I do know this story, actually.

And like, at our school, they do like,

this like, X-factor thing, where they say ...

They literally like, read out a list of names

and they re like, you man, can go into this room

and then everyone else gets like, sent away.

Did you both get sent into the room?

Yeah, cause we were the chosen .

And he had on a football shirt and African beads.

I don t remember, I just remember-

[laughter]

Yeah, these, these, these like, these Bay-arse

African beads, like the kind of African beads

you buy from amazon.com.

[laughter]

[soft instrumental music]

I can t wait to see the cover.

[Michaela] Me too.

There s gonna be little girls buying covers-

My daughter, yeah!

Of Vogue.

When she sees you on stuff, she s like,

Oh my god, that s Auntie!

How did they put her there?

[laughter]

She s like, No, does Auntie make magazines?

That s what she did when she saw your other cover.

She s like-

Wow.

Does Auntie make magazines?

How does she get there?

[laughter]

[chatting]

[soft instrumental music]

I m making a scene, I m sorry.

[Michaela] What game should we play?

What about your main game, Snake Eyes?

Are you ready?

Are you ready for Snake Eyes?

You never played Snake Eyes?

I don t know, tell me about it.

[Michaela] Snake Eyes is great.

All right, Snake Eyes, all you need is two dice.

Basically, each person rolls the dice

as many times as they can,

and the idea is to get up to 100 points.

Yeah.

If you roll it and one of the dies

lands on a one, it means that you lose

all the scores that you ve just done.

[Michaela] Is an eye of the snake.

That s one snake s eye.

You snake.

[Michaela] Let s play!

[soft instrumental beat]

[hissing]

Six.

[scream]

Let me go again!

[Michaela] That s not how it works, Sis.

What is this?

That s not how it works.

I relinquish the power of the curse.

10.

17 plus nine?

That s five!

I m good.

See, she s going to get one more.

She s cursed.

Oh, no!

No, no, I don t want no curse.

I think that s the end of the round.

[cheering]

All right, all right, let s get a photo, yeah?

Ready?

And cheese.

[soft instrumental beat]

I have no idea about cameras.

Oh, this is a cute picture.

It s giving.

That went well.

[cheering]