Nicola Coughlan wurde vom Time Magazine zu einer der „Next Generation Leaders“ ernannt

Her?

That’s just ridiculous.

This is pandering of the most vulgar and base sort.

Nicola, while seemingly a nice person and a competent soap-opera and light comedy actor, is being lauded here purely based on her social media fundraising. She was an almost complete unknown prior to Derry Girls – moving over and back to London repeatedly before taking a job in an Opticians – and her major accolades outside of Derry Girls/Bridgerton include Dr. Who and eh… the Great British Bake-off.

Off the back of her breathless proto-Mills and Boon scenery chewing in Netflix’s latest bit of soft-porn period-drama historic revisionism, she was able to harness her social media audience of body positive female 30-somethings to raise $2 million for Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). This is why she has the cover.

The reason I call out the body positivity bit explicitly is due to her previous dalliances in the Guardian Opinion section, calling out *female theatre reviewers* of all offending demographics. This is particularly disingenuous from a woman of almost 40 whose only ability to break into the industry at all was to specialise in playing roles 20 years younger, enabled in large part to the child-like aesthetic she chose to lean hard into. Hell, she auditioned for Maya Hawke’s role (age 23) as Robin Buckley (age 18 or 19) in Stranger Things in her mid 30s!

[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/29/critics-actors-talent-not-bodies-prime-miss-jean-brodie](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/29/critics-actors-talent-not-bodies-prime-miss-jean-brodie)

To paraphrase the Beatles a bit – not only is she probably not a good example of a ‘Next Generation Leader’, but she’s probably not even the most deserving nominee from the casts of the shows she is celebrated for.

The begrudgers who can’t just be happy for another human being are really out in force here. Nicola is a great actress, and more power to her, but more importantly, she consistently uses her voice and platform for good. Can’t think of a more deserving person for this accolade.

Fair play.

She used her voice and social media presence as a popular actor to raise over $2M USD for an ‘Urgent Gaza Relief and Recovery’ campaign for PCRF (Palestine Children’s Relief Fund). Not only that, she has consistently used her position to advocate for the people of Palestine and their human rights. Fair play to her. 

That’s the reason she’s on the front page of TIME magazine and the people giving out about her on this thread will never be. 

Good for her!