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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: 13-Year-Old Owen Cooper Believes His Inexperience Was a Blessing Starring on Adolescence · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. A lot has been
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  Speaker 1: said about the incredible debut performance of thirteen year old
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  Speaker 1: Owen Cooper in Adolescents as Jamie, wowing audiences with a
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  Speaker 1: role that was already extremely complex for any unseasoned actor,
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  Speaker 1: but was made even more challenging as each episode was
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  Speaker 1: shot in a single take, meaning any mistake would require
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  Speaker 1: them to start from scratch. But Owen tells Deadline his
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  Speaker 1: inexperience might have been a blessing. He says, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what was hard versus what was easy, so I
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  Speaker 1: just went with it. I didn't know anything other than
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  Speaker 1: doing it in one shot and memorizing all those lines.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever I got asked to do, I just did it
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  Speaker 1: because I wanted to prove that I was right for
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  Speaker 1: the part of Jamie. I wanted to impress everyone, So
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  Speaker 1: I went in there knowing my lines. They told me,
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  Speaker 1: if you get a line wrong, then you're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to go to the very beginning. I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: they said that, but it scared me a lot. The
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  Speaker 1: words of Adolescents star Owen Cooper, who just might pick
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  Speaker 1: up an Emmy nomination for his work. If you happen
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  Speaker 1: to win, he'd be the youngest in history. Adolescence is
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  Speaker 1: on Netflix that's direct from Hollywood.