{"id":476744,"date":"2026-03-15T10:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/476744\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:12:10","slug":"adolescence-changed-my-life-says-award-winning-star-owen-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/476744\/","title":{"rendered":"Adolescence changed my life, says award-winning star Owen Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The series analyses incel culture and how it has promoted misogyny online and bullying on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shortly after its debut in March, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer hosted a Downing Street meeting with the programme-makers, telling them it was &#8220;a torch that shines intensely brightly on a combination of issues that many people don&#8217;t know how to respond to&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cooper was selected for the pivotal role after years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp91yz4p44vo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spent at weekly drama classes in Manchester,<\/a> where teachers said their &#8220;eyes were just drawn to him&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking about the Emmy ceremony, where the cast and crew memorably celebrated, external their eight awards, he said: &#8220;It was crazy and all a bit of a blur. The amount of people I met there was insane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It really was the best day of my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The series analyses incel culture and how it has promoted misogyny online and bullying on social media. Shortly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-476744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}