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‘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’
15-year-old Owen Cooper on making his screen debut in the one-shot drama 'Adolescence' and now landing a role in Emerald Fennell's 'Wuthering Heights'
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. Appearing in two of the four episodes, the 15-year-old (14 when it was filmed) gives a truly astonishing turn, at first as a scared, tearful and confused youngster ripped from his family home in a dawn police raid, and then later in an increasingly distressing one-on-one session with Doherty’s character as the all-too-contemporary factors that led to the crime are slowly unravelled. Ahead of the global launch of “Adolescence,” Variety spoke to the young actor — still in his sports kit having just got home from school — alongside Barantini to discuss jumping straight from a casual weekly drama class to leading a major Netflix release to heading off to the moors for a big-budget Brönte adaptation.
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