Adolescent star Owen Copper of 15 years old history became the youngest actor to ever win the Emmy as the best supporting actor of a limited series.
Adolescence is the first professional credit of the actor, who was only 14 at the time of the filming of the show. Cooper starred as Jamie, a teenage boy who was arrested over the murder of a female classmate.
The show achieved and amazing 140m views in its initial three months with Netflix, and each episode was shot in a single take. The show created a worldwide debate on the connection between online incel culture and physical damage.
“Honestly, I had not dreamed that at the time when I began such drama classes a few years ago, I would even be in the United States, much more so here“, said Cooper on the stage.
He credited his family, his co-star and co-creator of the show, actor Stephen Graham.
“It may have my name on this award, but it really belongs to the people behind the camera and Stephen and ….all the cast”
Cooper is among the youngest recipients to receive an Emmy: the youngest winner is actor Roxana Zal, who won in 1984 at the age of 14 in the category of Supporting Actress in a Television Movie, which was the name of her performance in the television movie Something About Amelia.
Cooper completed, with his co-star in Adolescence, Ashley Walters, Javier Bardem in the Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, Bill Camp and Peter Sarsgaard in Presumed Innocent and Rob Delaney in Dying for Sex
Prior to the event, Cooper had expressed the desire to meet Kakr Gyllenhaal, who was nominated in the same category as him in the Emmy Awards. The actor presented Cooper with a gift on the red carpet a lucky duck to one of his friends who sent him a gift in the case of being nominated to an Oscar award to Brokeback Mountain.
“It’s just a ‘lucky duck’s to keep in your pocket,” Gyllenhaal said. “To give you a little bit of luck.”
During the ceremony on Sunday, Adolescence also brought such awards as best limited series, best directing, best writing, best actor in a limited series in the person of Graham, who plays the role of the father of Jamie in a youth detention facility, and the best supporting actress in a limited series in the person of Erin Doherty.
“We never expected our little program to have such a big program to have such a big impact,” said Graham, while accepting the Emmy for writing with his co-creator and writer Jack Thorne.
