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Ashley Walters reveals watching teen Owen Cooper's chilling performance in Adolescence reignited his 'dying' passion for acting


Ashley Walters has revealed that watching teenager Owen Cooper act in the hit Netflix show Adolescence may have saved his own acting career.

Owen has received critical acclaim for his performance as Jamie Miller in the four-episode series, with each part filmed as a single continuous take He said: 'It really threw up questions for me about, you know, how I deal with my own kids, how I talk to my own boys, and do I need to spend more time with them, just connecting because you're doing all the great things, right? Ashley admitted that before appearing in Adolescence, his passion for acting was 'slowly dying' but starring in the drama has reignited his love for it

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