Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: 13-Year-Old Owen Cooper Believes His Inexperience Was a Blessing Starring on Adolescence

13-year-old Owen Cooper won rave reviews for his incredibly challenging role on Adolescence...which was his very 1st job...but he thinks his inexperience was actually a blessing.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. A lot has been
said about the incredible debut performance of thirteen year old
Owen Cooper in Adolescents as Jamie, wowing audiences with a
role that was already extremely complex for any unseasoned actor,
but was made even more challenging as each episode was
shot in a single take, meaning any mistake would require
them to start from scratch. But Owen tells Deadline his

(00:23):
inexperience might have been a blessing. He says, I didn't
know what was hard versus what was easy, so I
just went with it. I didn't know anything other than
doing it in one shot and memorizing all those lines.
Whatever I got asked to do, I just did it
because I wanted to prove that I was right for
the part of Jamie. I wanted to impress everyone, So
I went in there knowing my lines. They told me,
if you get a line wrong, then you're gonna have
to go to the very beginning. I don't know why

(00:45):
they said that, but it scared me a lot. The
words of Adolescents star Owen Cooper, who just might pick
up an Emmy nomination for his work. If you happen
to win, he'd be the youngest in history. Adolescence is
on Netflix that's direct from Hollywood.