The actor of adolescence breaks down the “really scary” confrontation with the 14-year-old star

youth Has praised both critics and spectators unanimously, many of whom have been one of the best dramas in years.

Every episode of Netflix’s four-part limited series created by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham was shot by director Philip Barantini as one-take, which means that the audience has the feeling that the audience is currently following the drama and creating an additional dose of excitement.

Thanks to his debut performance as Jamie Miller, the 15 -year -old actor Owen Cooper is already tipped for the BAFTAS victory.

The third episode focuses on Jamie and the clinical psychologist Briony (Erin Doherty), who has the task of completing an assessment of the 13-year-old school boy before the procedure.

In an interview with diversityDoherty said she was impressed by Cooper, who was 14 years old at the time of shooting and suggested that his performance changed from the first to 11th insight. The latter is the one who was used.

“He played this character with such skills because they really felt for him,” she said. “As a Briony, the part of the essence of this dynamic must be; they cannot help but organize it for him. When they enter the room, she is ready to be the good guy, and that’s what you see: the breakdown of it.”

She later said that she had the feeling that Briony didn’t know she was in the room until Owen was going: “Because she had to maintain this professional guard”.

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“She knew what she was there and for which line she had to step,” she continued. “Only when he goes did these moments hit her in the face and she can really digest what happened. It is quite scary, and that was all it was.”

The moment when Jamie passes to blazing anger from childlike innocence was “really scary”, and revealed: “It is the dream of every actor to get to a place where you forgot yourself and you are in this strange reality that you created.

“It sounds bizarre, but they really believe it at the moment. When the person who opposes them does their job and do theirs.”

She added that she was “so proud” Cooper and how he introduced himself as an actor, since he had to struggle with “becoming this frightening thing, especially with someone he just met. So we really had to work to create this safe space in order to let him know that he is doing well.”

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Ironically, Cooper recently said Netflix that one of the most difficult things he had to struggle with in the final was the hot chocolate that Briony brings to Owen at the beginning of the episode.

“That was. It was terrible. It wasn’t hot chocolate because it had to change,” he said.

As a result, Jamie angry the drink on the ground and according to the actor “it made the ground for the cameraman sticky”.

“I remember that it was shed over the whole table in one of them. I could see people in the cameras who could see in the room as if they were trying to clean it quickly. When the camera came back, they had to change it,” he said.

Cooper added together and added: “It was disgusting.”

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The young actor has received high praise for his performance, including his co-star Graham, who calls it “greatest achievement” Youth.

Since then he has been occupied in the BBC series Filmclub, with White lotus‘S Aimee Lou Wood and as a young Heathcliff in Emerald Fennells upcoming adaptation of Wuthering HeightsPresent Opposite Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.