‘Adolescence’ Breakout Owen Cooper on Leading Netflix’s One-Shot Drama With No Acting Experience and Nabbing a Role in Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’
variety.comAlex Ritman Owen Cooper is a name many might be talking about over the next few weeks — at least among those who manage to get through Netflix‘s new limited series “Adolescence” in one piece.
The emotionally-devastating 4-part drama — from director Philip Barantini and written by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham — tells the gut-wrenching story of a British family whose world is turned upside down when their outwardly normal and well-adjusted 13-year-old son Jamie is arrested for the murder of a teenage girl in his class.
Weeks before its launch date March 12 it was being described in the U.K. press as one of the “most terrifying TV shows of our times” for its exploration of bullying, toxic masculinity and how a young mind from a seemingly loving home can be quietly radicalised by incel culture and the manosphere.
Adding to the intensity, each episode — like Barantini’s BAFTA-winning feature “Boiling Point” — was filmed in one continuous take, a creative tool that only serves to heighten the bruising nature of it all for viewers as they’re dragged closer to the emotional stress in real-time.
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