{"id":132452,"date":"2025-09-12T15:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/132452\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:07:10","slug":"owen-cooper-gifts-warrington-rylands-shirt-to-jimmy-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/132452\/","title":{"rendered":"Owen Cooper gifts Warrington Rylands shirt to Jimmy Kimmel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Last night, Thursday, the Warringtonian appeared on\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel Live\u00a0in Los Angeles.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 15-year-old is currently working in America ahead of the 77th Emmy Awards, at which he will be among the nominees.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  While appearing on the talk show, Owen discussed the smash hit Netflix series, Adolescence, in which he made his professional acting debut as Jamie Miller.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI have to tell you, I\u2019ve rarely seen anything as impressive as your performance in this show,\u201d said host, Jimmy Kimmel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI\u2019m sure you hear it all the time.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Owen talked about his breakout role in Netflix's Adolescence \" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Owen talked about his breakout role in Netflix&#8217;s Adolescence (Image: Jimmy Kimmel Live\/YouTube)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The pair discussed the Orford teenager\u2019s breakout performance in the series, which has seen him receive critical acclaim and even win an NTA award on Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt\u2019s serious acting that you have to do and boy did you,\u201d said Jimmy Kimmel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cYou did an absolutely great job and now you\u2019re an Emmy nominee.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  On Sunday, Owen will attend the prestigious awards ceremony with his castmates where he is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If the 15-year-old wins, he will become the youngest male winner the in history of the Emmy Awards.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Currently, Scott Jacoby is the youngest male winner, after he won Best Supporting Actor for That Certain Summer in 1973 \u2013 aged just 16.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Looking ahead to the ceremony, Owen admitted he hasn\u2019t written an acceptance speech yet and is hoping to be seated near his idol, Jake Gyllenhaal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"The teenager is nominated for an Emmy Award this weekend\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>The teenager is nominated for an Emmy Award this weekend (Image: Jimmy Kimmel Live\/YouTube)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHe\u2019s my number one,\u201d Owen said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHopefully I\u2019m sat next to him, if I am sat next to him, he\u2019s not going to have a good night.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI\u2019m just going to be talking to him the whole night.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Despite the fact that the teenager might make history, he has a strict schedule to follow and will be back in school on Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  After his appearance on the talk show, Owen gifted a Warrington Rylands FC shirt to Jimmy Kimmel, a nod to where the teenager plays football.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He shared a picture of the pair with the shirt on his Instagram story to his 586,000 followers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cJimmy Kimmel to Warrington Rylands, here we go,\u201d the post said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The former Warrington Rylands under-15&#8217;s player is set to make his film debut in Wuthering Heights, which will be released in February 2026, as young Heathcliff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night, Thursday, the Warringtonian appeared on\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel Live\u00a0in Los Angeles. 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