'What the hell!?' Congratulations to the amazing Aimée Lou Wood, who's just won the Virgin Media TV BAFTA for Female Performance in a Comedy for her work in the second series of Sex Education and accepted the prize with an adorably frazzled speech.
Anyone who saw her impressive turn - as a character also called Aimee - will know that while she definitely brought the laughs in the hit Netflix series, her season two arc was an emotional one that saw her struggle with the aftermath of a sexual assault while riding the bus. Now, she's hoping that the show's success and wide reach will help other women who have had similar experiences.
'I really do,' she said in the press room after her win when she was asked if she hoped her storyline could help others. 'A lot of the messages when it came out were so moving: it really has helped people and I just feel so honoured to have been a part of that. It was Laurie's personal story, so it's really special to me.'
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She also acknowledged the show's runaway international success. 'We didn't expect it at all, and you're expected to know how to deal,' she admitted. 'I'm still getting my head around it.'
As Aimée pointed out, the horrendous experience was inspired by one that Sex Education's writer Laurie Nunn herself faced. She discussed it in detail with Laura Bates the founder of Everyday Sexism. 'The inspiration for Aimee's storyline in series two came from a personal experience that I had myself,' she explained. 'This thing happened to me about five years ago where I was on my local bus and I was on the way to King's Cross station. This man got on and he just made a beeline straight for me and came and sat right next to me. Which was just so weird, I was like, "you have so many seats you could sit on but you've come and sat right next to me." I had my bags on the floor and he put his feet on my bags so that I couldn't move and he started inching himself toward me and then he was rubbing himself on me and touching himself.' She says that the aftermath was profound, and she avoided public transport for weeks.
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