{"id":74816,"date":"2025-08-18T06:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74816\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T06:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:06:07","slug":"adolescence-star-owen-cooper-interview-on-difficult-scene-emmys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74816\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Adolescence\u2019 Star Owen Cooper Interview on Difficult Scene, Emmys"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJuly 15, the day Owen Cooper became the youngest-ever Emmy nominee<\/a> for outstanding supporting actor in a limited series\/movie, was just a regular school day for the Adolescence<\/a> star, who had a grueling 90-minute wait after the final bell rang for the nominations to be announced at 8:30 a.m. on the West Coast in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was just in my living room and then everyone rung me and said that I\u2019d been nominated,\u201d the 15-year-old British actor told The Hollywood Reporter the morning of, having not yet had a chance to watch the news for himself. \u201cIt got spoiled for me. \u2026 which is a bit annoying.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCooper\u2019s Emmy nomination came for his portrayal of 13-year-old Jamie Miller, a schoolboy who develops an extreme aggression toward women that leads to heartbreaking consequences for him and his family, in the Jack Thorne- and Stephen Graham-created Netflix<\/a> series. Jamie, viewers later learn in episode three\u2019s tense standoff between the teen and child psychologist Briony Ariston (portrayed by Erin Doherty), was rejected by the young girl, and because of that interaction and the influence of red-pill podcasts and other misogynistic digital media, develops a strong aggression toward women.<\/p>\n

\n\tCooper chatted with THR about his schoolmates\u2019 reaction to the series, its takeaways for parents \u2014 particularly in the final scene of episode four \u2014 and the A-listers he\u2019s looking forward to meeting on the Emmys campaign trail.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat\u2019s it been like going back to school while promoting the series? <\/p>\n

\n\tWell, my friends haven\u2019t changed, but the first day back [after it premiered] was just madness, really. It\u2019s perfectly fine now, but there\u2019s still a few idiots in year eight \u2026 the kids who are like three years below me, they\u2019re just annoying.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat have you heard from your peers about the series and its commentary on young boys and how they\u2019re influenced by online culture?<\/p>\n

\n\tI obviously knew about young lads going out and stabbing people, but I didn\u2019t know it to that extent \u2014 and the bullying online. I\u2019m very lucky to never have been bullied online and I don\u2019t bully anyone online. I\u2019ve never come across that at my school, not in my year group. \u2026 Everyone is aware of knife crime in the U.K., and when Adolescence came out, it hit a lot of homes.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat did preparation look like with this being your first big role?<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen [Philip Barantini, the director] said that it was all shot in one shot, I thought he was just talking about one scene or one episode, but he meant all four episodes would be shot in one shot, and I just felt really weird about it. I was so excited about doing [the series], and then when he said that, I was so nervous. As soon as I got the script, I went up in my room, highlighted it all, and then stayed up until about 1 in the morning [rehearsing] it. I didn\u2019t want to be that person that messed it up and made us start over from the beginning, which I\u2019m so very lucky never happened. I didn\u2019t prepare mentally for the role; I prepared the script.<\/p>\n

\n\tI was nervous about not being able to pull it off because we filmed episode three first, and I was going through the script, and I was waiting for my lines to end because they were just going on and on and on. I almost cried that I had that many lines. (Laughs.) Mentally, I struggled with it a lot because, obviously, I\u2019m nowhere near Jamie at all. And the bit where I\u2019m standing over Erin saying, \u201cWhat was that, what was that?\u201d in rehearsals, I just couldn\u2019t bring myself to do that. I hated every second of it. It just wasn\u2019t in my comfort zone whatsoever, but I got used to it by the end.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen filming ended, did you feel like you were able to let this role go or did Jamie stay with you for a little while?<\/p>\n

\n\tNo, Jamie didn\u2019t. I\u2019m glad that he didn\u2019t stay with me because he\u2019s not the best person. Before \u201caction\u201d and after \u201ccut,\u201d I was back to myself. Stephen was telling me that it takes him about five minutes to get back to his normal self, but with me, in episode three when I\u2019m banging on the window and then I leave, as soon as I got out that door, my chaperone was standing there with a bottle of water. In episode one, it was a little bit different because when I\u2019m in the cell and the camera\u2019s not on me, I stay in the character all the way from action to cut, but after cut, I\u2019m perfectly fine.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat do you make of the ending of Adolescence and how things turn out for Jamie and his family?<\/p>\n

\n\tI was only in a small bit of that, but that\u2019s my favorite episode. If I was to watch the show, I would just watch episode four because I love everything about it. The very last scene [when Jamie\u2019s dad tucks his teddy bear in to his bed], it\u2019s so sad, but that\u2019s my favorite scene in the whole show. I think Stephen and Christine [Tremarco] and Am\u00e9lie [Pease] were just amazing. The ending was brilliant and everything that led up to it. I think [the series] was formatted really well, where the first episode was about the arrest, and then the second episode was the impact it had on the school. The third episode was the impact it had on Jamie, and then the fourth episode was the impact it had on the family. I think the fourth episode was most important because it shows parents that they need to talk to their kids; don\u2019t make them lonely.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat has your team told you to prepare for during the Emmy campaign?<\/p>\n

\n\tWell, we only spoke very shortly before this [interview], so I don\u2019t really know what to prepare for. I just know that I go in there, meet loads of people, eat loads of food and have a good night, really. I genuinely can\u2019t wait to go meet all those people.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnyone in particular you\u2019re hoping to meet?<\/p>\n

\n\tJake Gyllenhaal \u2014 he\u2019s my favorite actor of all time \u2014 Pedro Pascal, Gary Oldman. There\u2019s loads of names.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat sorts of roles are you interested in taking on after this?<\/p>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t really focus on certain roles that I\u2019d like to do. I just want to work with brilliant actors and directors. People like Tom Holland and the big, famous actors, like Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Jake Gyllenhaal \u2014 obviously \u2014 Hugh Jackman, those sorts of people.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis story appeared in the Aug. 13 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 15, the day Owen Cooper became the youngest-ever Emmy nominee for outstanding supporting actor in a limited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1822,20267,6491,1824,96,392,1828,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-74816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-adolescence","9":"tag-awards","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-emmy-awards","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-netflix","14":"tag-owen-cooper","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74816","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=74816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}