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Owen Cooper has become the youngest male ever to win an Emmy (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\nCooper, 15, became the youngest male actor to win an Emmy for his performance in the Netflix drama, beating the previous record held by Scott Jacoby, who won an Emmy for That Certain Summer in 1973 aged 16, and the teachers at his former drama school stayed up late to watch his triumph.<\/p>\n
Esther Morgan, co-director of The Drama MOB in Didsbury, Manchester, which Cooper attended for two years prior to his Adolescence breakthrough, told the PA news agency: \u201cIn 12 years this is our biggest achievement, and we\u2019re just so, so proud.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started our classes 12 years ago and we just wanted to give kids from the north a chance to perform, we wanted to give them the skills, we wanted to give them opportunities in the industry, and that\u2019s always been our passion, really, providing that to those kids.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo see him, a local northern boy, on the stage at the Emmys, it\u2019s just mind-blowing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Morgan, who works alongside the school\u2019s owner Tina O\u2019Brien, known for playing Sarah Platt in ITV\u2019s Coronation Street, said she \u201chad a feeling it might go his way\u201d ahead of the awards ceremony, but said despite having raw talent, the group could have never predicted his success when he was starting out.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cI knew he was fantastic, I mean, as soon as he came in, I remember watching him in class, and then when he came to join our agency, I remember thinking, \u2018wow, he\u2019s really, really natural, he\u2019s really great\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a really great kid as well, he\u2019s a really lovely, lovely boy, I don\u2019t think in a million years I imagined that he would be where he is now, I don\u2019t think any of us did, but I knew there was something really, really special about him, absolutely.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen this opportunity came up for Adolescence, I knew the first time he taped and then they came back for him, and they kept coming back for him and back for him, I knew they really liked him, and I just had this gut feeling that he could do this.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just so so proud of him and for his mum and his dad, and his family, it\u2019s just so, so lovely.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cooper attended weekly classes at the school, with Morgan saying he had previously faced rejection when sending in tapes for other roles, praising his perseverance.<\/p>\n
Owen Cooper has become the youngest male ever to win an Emmy (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cWe teach the young people that sign up with us, that in this industry, there is always going to be rejection.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt can be a little bit brutal, but if you really, really want to succeed, it is just a case of persevering, keep trying, keep working on your skills.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, in between doing all those tapes, he was coming to class every week, he performed in theatre shows with us, he was working on all those skills that you see during the filming of Adolescence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do try and give them that resilience and just try and teach them that if that is your passion, if that\u2019s what you want to do, you have to keep on going.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll those opportunities beforehand, even though he didn\u2019t get the jobs, he was seen by some great casting directors, built his experience and his confidence, and that was the job for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Netflix show features This Is England star and co-creator Stephen Graham as Eddie Miller, the father of 13-year-old Jamie, played by Cooper, who sees armed police burst into his home to arrest his son.<\/p>\n
Eddie is then chosen as Jamie\u2019s appropriate adult, accompanying him at the police interview and learning the extent of what his son is accused of doing.<\/p>\n
The programme examines so-called incel (involuntary celibate) culture, which has led to misogyny online and bullying using social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper, 15, became the youngest male actor to win an Emmy for his performance in the Netflix drama,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-426040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115207876394920214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}