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‘Adolescence’ Duo Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters on the ‘Possibility’ of Season 2, ‘Overwhelming’ Global Response and What’s Next for Their Company
Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters discuss the overwhelming reaction to the Netflix series and the possibility of bringing it back for a second season
Neither Graham nor Walters had any idea what sort of reaction “Adolescence” — the four-part drama they co-produced that tells the gut-wrenching story of a British family whose world is turned upside down when their outwardly normal 13-year-old son is arrested for the murder of a girl in his class — would generate. With Walters as the driving force spearheading Matriarch’s slate behind the scenes (Graham notes she easily spends upwards of 12 hours a day having meetings from their office), her husband is happy to be called upon when she wants him to read something (or, in some cases, be used as the star-powered “leverage” so networks allow them to pick the rest of their cast). When Matriarch was first established, one of its key principles was to give a platform to underrepresented voices, which is something they claim they’ve proudly been able to achieve.Walters says that that training schemes were put in place across their shows in “every single department,” pulling resources from U.K. skills organizations such as ScreenSkills and Fully Focused, who she says “work with youth and people who would otherwise not have any chance of getting into this industry.”
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