Stephen Graham (acting as Eddie)
Appearances
Fresh Air
Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham
Excuse me, mate. Yeah. I haven't got a clue what I'm doing here. I don't know what to say.
Fresh Air
Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham
Never even been in a police station before. You'll be fine. I just don't want to get it wrong. You know what I mean? You'll be fine.
Fresh Air
Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham
Thank you. What a wonderful introduction. Thank you very much.
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Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Fresh Air
Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham
Of course. Yeah. But she understands it and she does it. And you know, if there's anyone that can dive into emotions when they're on set, it's Hannah. She's unbelievable. So when I try and do it, Sam, she just goes, oh, well, the dog had diarrhea all over the carpet this morning. And I'm like, oh, and she went and I had to go shopping and the car ran out of petrol while I was on the motorway.
Fresh Air
Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham
And I'm like, oh, cry me a river, Steve.
Fresh Air
Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham
Exactly. That's kind of where she goes. But again, you know, and I know, look, for me, family is the most important thing to me. It's them a rock. They make me the man who I am. Do you know what I mean? I am here because of them mainly as well. And just to share this with you. And these are the tricks of the trade.
Fresh Air
Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham
on that last scene that on that episode it was the very last take so again my kids both grace my daughter and alfie were there and hannah was there for that day and for that last take when i go into the bedroom i had no idea something that they'd done it honestly i didn't and i had gone into that bedroom obviously 15 times and so i had a kind of idea of what i was going to do and what i was going through and philip come up with a beautiful idea
Fresh Air
Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham
when we were in rehearsals and he said, I'm just going to put a teddy bear on the bed. And I was like, why? And he was like, just see what happens. So all the maternal instincts he felt for that teddy bear kind of just come from nowhere. Do you know what I mean? In many ways, because it's a replacement for his son.
Fresh Air
Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham
But anyway, when I came into the room, what Hannah and the kids had done, and this is the take that you see. So this is where it comes from as well. I'm already in the moment. Don't get me wrong. I'm completely in the moment now. But what my kids and Hannah had done, they put photographs on the, on the wall of, of them and me. And they just put, we're so proud of you, dad. We love you so much.
Fresh Air
Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham
And, and obviously then you can imagine, I've told you, I'm a very soppy person. I wear my heart on my sleeve. And I just, and I just went, do you know what I mean? It was like, it just all came out. And then when I'd finished that particular scene, yeah, they grabbed all to me and yeah, they didn't let go of me for a while. And I did cry for quite a bit of time after that, actually.
Fresh Air
Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham
But we all cried on that set after that particular scene when we'd finished it.
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Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham
Thank you very much. It's been an absolute pleasure.
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Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham
I'm going to ask you once, okay? No matter what's happened, no matter what you've done or you haven't done, I want you to tell me this truth. Did you do it?
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
For a lot of people, it is, yeah. And I understand it and I get it. And to some extent, I think maybe there is for me. I'm also able to jump in and jump out and decompress quite quickly now, which is a kind of technique I've learned myself over time. Do you have tools for that? Yeah, yeah. And those tools are, well, the biggest tool for that is my wife, Hannah, on many levels.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
You know, if I phone her and say, it's been a really tough day at work today, love, you know, I had to cry and stuff. She'd be like, oh, really? And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I go, oh, do I sound like a d**k? And she'd be like, yes. She'll go, well, I'll tell you what, the dog had died.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Of course. Yeah. But she understands it and she does it. And you know, if there's anyone that can dive into emotions when they're on set, it's Hannah. She's unbelievable. So when I try and do it, she just goes, oh, well, the dog had diarrhea all over the carpet this morning. And I'm like, oh, and she went and I had to go shopping and the car ran out of petrol while I was on the motorway.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
And I'm like, oh, cry me a river, Steve.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Exactly. That's kind of where she goes. But again, you know, and I know, look, for me, family is the most important thing to me. It's them. They're my rock. They make me the man who I am. Do you know what I mean? I am here because of them mainly as well. And just to share this with you. And these are the tricks of the trade. On that last scene, on that episode, it was the very last take.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
I think it was like take 12 or something like that. But it was the very final take. Oh, was it take 16? Wow. Okay, God. Yeah, we had to stop a couple of times. One, the door wasn't open when he was trying to back into the door with the camera inside.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
he just hit the window there was a couple of times the car wouldn't start as we got it and as we set off so there was oh then we got stuck at the traffic lights that's right so take 16 and what happened was again it was the last day and it was the very last day of filming
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
so again my kids both Grace my daughter and Alfie were there and Hannah was there for that day and for that last take when I go into the bedroom I had no idea Sam that they'd done it honestly I didn't and I had gone into that bedroom obviously 15 times and so I had a kind of idea of what I was going to do and what I was going through and Philip come up with a beautiful idea when we were in rehearsals and he said I'm just going to put a teddy bear on the bed and I was like why and he was like just see what happens and
Fresh Air
'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
So all the maternal instincts he felt for that teddy bear kind of just come from nowhere. Do you know what I mean? In many ways, because it's a replacement for his son. But anyway, when I came into the room, what Hannah and the kids had done, and this is the take that you see. So this is where it comes from as well. I'm already in the moment. Don't get me wrong. I'm completely in the moment.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
But what my kids and Hannah had done, they put photographs on the, on the wall of, of them and me. And they just put, we're so proud of you, dad. We love you so much. And, and obviously then you can imagine, I've told you, I'm a very soppy person. I wear my heart on my sleeve. And I just, and I just went, do you know what I mean? It was like, it just all came out.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
And then when I'd finished that particular scene, yeah, they grabbed all to me and yeah, they didn't let go of me for a while. And I did cry for quite a bit of time after that, actually. But we all cried on that set after that particular scene when we'd finished it.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
I asked my brother to make arrangements because my heart cannot be trusted.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
I had an idea and a vision of where I would like to take this particular character and this man. And that began, if I'm completely honest with you, so that began for me really in the beginning was the physical aspect of it. You know, I wanted to look like I was a fighter. I wanted to look like I was a brawler. I wanted to look like I was capable of getting in the ring and fighting.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Well, you're built like a tank in the show. Thank you very much. Yeah, I'm not normally like that in real life. But, I mean, I've managed to keep that physique to an extent. So for me, it was more the physical aspect at the very beginning and setting off on that journey. And I, you know, when we got greenlit, I had six months and I knew I had six months to prepare before we began to shoot.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
So I really trained and I trained like an athlete. I trained, you know, I trained like a fighter. I had a wonderful, wonderful coach who was my coach.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
physical coach who is also my dietician as well um rob he you know we we used to we do five days a week and on top of that i was boxing three four times a week with my boxing coach who's a really good friend graham um so i amazed myself completely into that whole kind of physical aspect of it um so you said you were training for six months with someone who was also a dietician i imagine that
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
The first thing, and again, it's not that bad really, but the first thing I had, which I was dying for, was I had curry goat. Curry goat and rice and peas. I smashed that. We were in London and I just yammed it. I swallowed it whole. Yeah, because it was just unbelievable. But I think I've never eaten so much broccoli and spinach. Probably like just chicken breast.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, this chicken, that chicken. And it's like, can I have a bit of flavor? I love real good spices.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
No, but I did get away with it. I couldn't do what I had to do. I had to just spread sriracha all over it, you know what I mean, personally.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Yeah, yeah, they are massively. Shoes change my physicality and they can make me walk different. And I just, I love that kind of, the embodying the movement and the physicality of the character. So I love working on the walk.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
And sometimes I can really, really, really do the heads in of my family and I can annoy my lot because I'll tell them to stop what they're doing and watch me walk in the living room. And I'll go, look, is this a good walk? And they'll be like, Dad, I'm watching it. And I'll go, just give me two minutes, please. Just watch me. Is this a good walk? Look. And they'll go, yeah, yeah, that's great.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
And I'll go, you're not looking properly. Watch. Tell me now. So, yeah, them kind of physical aspects of the character that I think are important. And then you create all the psychological aspects.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
It didn't make it particularly difficult, but what it did make me want to do, and as well when I explained to Shane, because originally when I went to... Shane Meadows. Shane Meadows, yeah, who's the fantastic director. When I explained to Shane that I was mixed race, I kind of thought that he might then give the part to somebody else. Because we'd had auditions and we did a bit of a workshop.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
And Andrew Shim, who plays Milky, who's the black character, who's part of the gang as well, we'd endured the improvisation, as you can imagine. I went to some extremes with the language that I used there. And I never said anything to anyone.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
But that night I managed to get Andrew's phone number and I phoned him up and I said, look, I just want to apologize for the language and for the things that I said to you today. I want you to know that that's not the way I think. It's not me at all. And I hope you can understand. I said, and to be completely honest with you, I'm mixed race. And he was like, really? I said, yeah.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
He went, I thought so. I thought there was something wrong. and I was like but can you do me a favour and he went what I went please don't and I was about to say don't tell Shane he shouted Shane Shane and I was like oh no and then he gave the phone to Shane and Shane was like hello hello mate and I was like alright and he went what is it and I was like
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Look, Shane, I just wanted to say, I've just told Shimmy, look, I'm mixed race. You're probably going to want to give the part to somebody else now, and I understand that. And he was like, are you kidding me? I went, no, I'm just... He was like, this is amazing. He said, imagine what we can do with it now. I went, what do you mean? He went, well, we can take it somewhere else now.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
We can take it somewhere else that we never thought of taking it. And then we did. You know, we really worked on it, and what it became about was it became more about... An abandonment issue from his father and kind of not being accepted or not being a part of the identity of his self and the black part of his family. So we added such a complexity to it then.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Yeah, yeah. And if I'm honest here, from both sides. I had a little struggle of my own back then, trying to find the sense of where and how I belong. You mean your identity, sort of, your racial identity? Yeah, completely. culturally, racially, in many ways, you know what I mean?
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Because there were certain elements of my white cousins and on that side of my family who said some horrible things and, you know, even other family members said some horrible things and said some really horrible things to my mother at the time. And then on the side of the black family, you know, things were said to me... And said to my mother as well in a horrible sense from both sides of it.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
So it did take a while and it kind of, you know, it's maybe in my early teens. I'm not saying that that's what my life was like all the time because it was very happy and joyous, you know, my household, my mom living with, it was just me and my mom for the first 10 years. And I adore my mother, God bless her soul. She was, you know, she was the strong matriarch and she was a wonderful woman.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
And my pops came into my life when I was 10. Your stepfather? Yeah, my stepfather. He is my stepfather. But he raised you. Yeah, he raised me. He raised me. And he's mixed race as well. So he really taught me about my sense of identity and who I am and where I'm from. And taught me about the likes of Marcus Garby and Toussaint Louboutin and Malcolm X, Martin Luther King.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
So he filled me with the history and the knowledge of who I was, do you know what I mean, in many ways. Yeah. And then he also inspired me and led me to believe that anything is possible and to follow my dreams. But as a kid growing up, there was, you know, at times it was difficult.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
And it took a little while for me to find my sense of self and for me to be completely comfortable with who I am, really. Do you know what I mean in that respect? Which, you know, I sit with inside myself of who I am today and I'm completely comfortable with myself. But it takes a long time, I think.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Taxi Driver and Deer Hunter. Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter and The Godfather. And it was kind of that's where the beginning of my love affair for filmmaking started and the art and the craft of what it is. Do you know what I mean? And then he introduced me to the likes of David Lynch and Curry Sauer and Martin Scorsese. Do you know what I mean? All of these great directors. Ken Loach.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
as well uh alan clark you know i got a real great education from my pops because my pops has always loved film um and that's kind of where it began for me and then you know me him and my mum used to always go we'd go like to the tate and to art and he made me look at art and things differently Thank you.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Thank you. What a wonderful introduction. Thank you very much.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
It happened a while ago, to be honest with you, Sam. I read an article in a newspaper, which it was about a young boy who had stabbed a young girl to death. And it just made me feel quite cold. And I was stunned by what I was reading there. And then about three or four months later, there was a story on the news, on television.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
And I was watching it and it was, again, it was about a young boy who had stabbed a young girl to death. And this incident was the opposite end to the country to the first incident that I'd read about. And at that point, if I'm completely honest, it really hurt my heart. But in that moment, I judged the parents and I instantly said to myself, you know, it's got to be down to the parents.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
And then I stopped myself and tried to be mindful and questioned the fact that what if it's not? Maybe I shouldn't be so judgmental. What if it's not? And from that basis, from that premise, I just thought, well, why is this happening?
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Why are we in this situation where, you know, young boys, and they are young boys, they're not men, you know, their brains haven't been fully formed yet, their physiology is not complete as yet, you know, adolescence is a very difficult age as we all know, do you know what I mean?
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
You go through a lot of different things physically, mentally, and even spiritually in the greater scheme of things, you know what I mean? But my main question was why, why is this happening?
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
No, not at all. And, you know, ultimately, I think I think that's one of the main themes of the show is that they can't be resolved and we don't have the answers. There's a wonderful saying, which is it takes a village to raise a child. And within that kind of complexity of what that says to me. within what we are doing, it's kind of like, maybe we're all accountable.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
And that comes down to, you know, the parenting, maybe how we, how we parent our children, the school system, how the education system guides and tries to educate our children, the government, you know, how they can bring in legislation, um, the community and the environment of where we live, um,
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
And then on top of that now, which was something that me and you never had to suffer from and our parents never had to think about, but there is now this big thing called the internet.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
When a child closes the door, back in the day when it was me and you, we didn't have access to the rest of the world and we couldn't be influenced dramatically by other people and their theories and their thought processes. So that was what we really wanted to look at, you know what I mean? Maybe we're all accountable in some way for what is happening today in our society.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
For me, Eddie, the character that I played, I wanted to make him more like that kind of archetypal man in a way. The kind of men that I was brought up with, like my uncles and like I've said, you know, my friends, fathers and stuff like that, who are beautiful, wonderful men.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
hard-working men who go to work say maybe six o'clock seven o'clock in the morning and don't manage to get back home till gone six seven eight at night you know what i mean um so the kind of area that they live in is it's a really nice housing estate you know what i mean it's it's it's it's a well-to-do area in many ways it's not it's not it's far from upper class and it's you know it's it's a working class household
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
in a really nice area. So I wanted to concentrate on the fact that they come from a good home and there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of love in that home. The mother and father primarily are doing the best for their children and his sister is an A-level student.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
You know, she's a really hardworking, conscientious student because it's unconventional for us to follow the story through the eyes of the family who are from the perpetrator. Normally, as you can imagine, it would be the victim side of it. And rightly so. Do you know what I mean? In that conventional drama, that's what we would see.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
But also what I wanted to try and do with this process was eliminate the possibilities of pointing the finger and saying, well, this is why. So I didn't want it to be like dad raised his hand and hit his boy. So normally we could be able to point the finger in that direction and say, this is why he did it. But we wanted to eliminate that. and start with a clean slate.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
yeah yeah and that's there's a lot of pain inside eddie you know when after he realizes what his son has done because what it is as well was what i wanted to try and try and achieve and try and accomplish with the respects to eddie is like i said that kind of old-fashioned archetypal man in many ways um who you know it comes from a lineage of of men who are not very tactile um
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
And that kind of comes from the process of with my son and with my daughter, you know, I'm very blessed to have two beautiful children. And I hug them and cuddle them and I tell them I love them every single day, every single day, because I adore my kids. I really do. You know, one of the best things, the best thing in my life I've ever been a part of. They really are, do you know what I mean?
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Yeah, Stephen's very soppy and I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm almost, you know, look, even just thinking of Grace and Alfie is making me start to tear up and I'm just ridiculous. They laugh at me all the time because I'm very teary and narrow.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
but what I wanted to do was to play the polar opposites of that and one morning when I had Alfie and some of his mates were in his house I was giving Alfie a cuddle because they were going out for the day and I give him a cuddle and I give him a kiss on the cheek and I said be good have a good day do you know what I mean and his friend started to cry a little bit and I was like are you okay and Alfie jumped in and said his dad never hugs him and his dad's never told him that he loves him
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
And it just broke my heart a little bit. Do you know what I mean? And I've seen him with his father and you can see the love his father has for him. And for me, it was completely alien. I thought there was no way that his father would have never done something like that. Because to me, it was just such a natural thing that I don't even think about it.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
The beauty of this is where we have three weeks to shoot each episode. Yeah. But what we do within that context is for the first week, we rehearse the script and we go through the script like we're about to do a play.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Yeah, yeah, of course. And that's the beauty of it. But we rehearse the script and we go through the script. And it was great because we had myself there and we had Jack, the writer. So it was a beautiful position that we were in where we could tweak the language. We could adjust what was happening to our environment.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
And in the same respect, you know, me and Jack are not 14-year-old boys, but we could ask Owen, what would he say in these particular situations?
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Yes, yeah, that's right. Owen Cooper, who's phenomenal in the piece. But within that context, we could get to use the real authentic language. It's such a gift because you're able to marry both disciplines. So you have that spontaneity and the live kind of feeling and exhilaration of theatre. But you have the technical ability and the kind of nuance and the realism of film and television acting.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
But then also because of the technique of it being a one shot, you know, you're able like in episode two to travel all around the school.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Yes, yeah, it really was. And it was actually, you know, for I think about 150 of our extras of the supporting artists, it was their school. So that was great because they, you know, they know the place and they really felt at home. So in that first week, we work on a script.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
and then the second week we work with all of the crew all of the crew come on set and we we negotiate and we begin to walk through our pathway of what we're going to do and where we're going to go and how we're going to get there and that's when you have everybody about so you know you can then the sound department they can plant mics here and there so we really really meticulously go over and over and over and over our movements and
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
And the third week is when we begin to shoot. So we do two takes a day. So sometimes, you know, hopefully at the minimum, we will have 10 takes.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Yeah. So we shot for five days and you do two takes a day. But as is with episode one, the take you see is take two. With episode two, the take we used was take 14.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Well, I did, personally. I did on the first one. I knew it was the second take. I just knew it was. And I was kind of like, can we go home now? And Phil was like, no, we're being paid to be here for the rest of the week. And I said to Phil, it's not going to get better than that. And he was like, you never know. And I was like, trust me, that's it.
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'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
Don't say that. I didn't give him that, did I? Well, did I give them that?
Fresh Air
'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
And I promised myself... I said, when I had my own kids, I'd never do that. I'd never... I'd never do that to my kids. And I didn't, did I? I just wanted to be better. But aren't we? I'm not better.