‘Adolescence’ Writer Jack Thorne On The Missing Knife, The Scene He Agonized Over, Saving British Drama & His Zoom Encounter With Brad Pitt
deadline.comEditor’s note: spoilers ahead for all four episodes of Adolescence Jack Thorne has just stepped off a train when he picks up the phone to Deadline, the latest destination in a dizzying round of interviews about what could become the biggest hit of his career: Adolescence.
The writer was arriving back in London from Manchester, where he and Stephen Graham sat on BBC Breakfast’s famous red sofa to discuss their Netflix series in front of the British nation.
For a man who always appears breathlessly busy with work, even Thorne seems a little dazed by the interest in Adolescence. “It’s been a really delicious and wonderful whirlwind,” he says.
Thorne and Adolescence director Philip Barantini first sat down with Deadline last month to tease the drama, which opens with 13-year-old Jamie Miller (played by the extraordinary newcomer Owen Cooper) being arrested by armed police on suspicion of murder.
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