Stephen Graham (Boiling Point, Bodies), Ashley Walters (Top Boy) and Erin Doherty (The Crown) have joined the cast of Netflix’s real-time, one-shot crime drama, ‘Adolescence.’
Joining them in his first major role for television is Owen Cooper, alongside Faye Marsay (Game of Thrones), Christine Tremarco (The Responder), Mark Stanley (Happy Valley), Jo Hartley (After Life) and newcomer Amélie Pease. Warp Films, Matriarch Productions and Plan B for Netflix produce the series.
The four-part series tells the story of how a family’s world is turned upside down when 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) is arrested and charged with the murder of a teenage girl who goes to his school. Stephen Graham will play Jamie’s father and ‘appropriate adult’, Eddie Miller. Ashley Walters stars as Detective Inspector Luke Bascombe and Erin Doherty is Briony Ariston, the clinical psychologist assigned to Jamie’s case.
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Currently filming in the UK, the series is directed by Philip Barantini, with each episode being filmed in one unflinching continuous shot, focusing on the main characters and the unparalleled drama as it unfolds in real-time.
The drama reunites Stephen Graham and Philip Barantini, who previously collaborated on the BAFTA and BIFA-nominated feature Boiling Point, critically acclaimed for its one continuous shot. The series is created and written by Graham and multi-award winner Jack Thorne (The Swimmers, Joy).
The executive producers are Mark Herbert and Emily Feller for Warp Films, Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters for Matriarch Productions, Jack Thorne for One Shoe Films, Phil Barantini for It’s All Made Up, and Jeremy Kleiner, Dede Gardner and Nina Wolarsky for Plan B Entertainment.
