Co-head of Manchester school where Adolescence actor trained says she hopes win will encourage casting of ‘raw northern talent’
The co-director of the drama school where Adolescence star Owen Cooper trained has said she hopes his Emmy win will encourage producers to “look outside the box” when it comes to casting working-class and northern talent.
Cooper, 15, became the youngest ever male recipient of an Emmy on Sunday, when he won the best supporting actor in a limited series award for his role as the teenage murder suspect Jamie Miller in the Netflix drama.
Esther Morgan, who runs the Drama MOB school in Didsbury, Manchester, with the Coronation Street star Tina O’Brien, helped train Cooper alongside hundreds of other young people from the north-west from a wide variety of backgrounds.
She said they were delighted at his success and pleased to see the producers taking the time to look for talent outside London.
