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How Stephen Graham Carried the Weight of Adolescence
What the series co-creator–writer–star brought to, and took away from, portraying a father who “will never be the same again.”
Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire, an underground crime lord and boxer in A Thousand Blows, a neo-Nazi play-acting at being a father in This Is England, a coolly unemotional dystopian leader in Bodies. But in Adolescence, the four-episode Netflix series about Jamie Miller (newcomer Owen Cooper), a budding 13-year-old incel who stabs a female classmate(Emilia Holliday) to death, the swagger some might associate with Graham is absent. In its place is a raw wound of regret, vulnerability, and confusion, which Graham, who also co-created and co-wrote the series with Jack Thorne, uses to play Jamie’s father Eddie as he struggles with the truth of what his son has done.
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