Stephen Graham teased fans with a second series of Adolescence as the Netflix miniseries continued its all-conquering awards run with a joint-top four awards at last night’s Golden Globes, advising them to “stay tuned” after he picked up the Best Male Actor in a Limited Series Award at last night’s ceremony in Beverly Hills.
Fans shouldn’t get too excited just yet, however – the advice came with the caveat that the follow up currently sits within the “deep recesses” of his and writer Jack Thorne’s minds, likely to be “pulled out” in “three or four years.”
Thorne was also in LA last night to pick up the Best Limited Series prize for the show. In his acceptance speech, the scribe said the show is not meant to criticise young people but rather “the filth and the debris we have laid in their path.”
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Also on the scoreboard, Warrington prodigy Owen Cooper followed up his historic Emmy win with another award for supporting actor. He said that standing on the Golden Globes stage “does not feel real whatsoever.”
He added: “What an incredible journey me and my family has been put through. We are forever grateful for what these people have done for me and my family.”
The win made Cooper the youngest winner ever in the category — at age 16, he beats Chris Colfer, who was 20 when he won for “Glee” in 2010.
It also makes Cooper the second-youngest male Globe winner of all time. “The Champ” star Ricky Schroder, at age 9, won in 1980 for new star of the year.
He added that he was the only boy in his drama class, and while “it was embarrassing,” he “got through it,” and that he’s “still learning every day,” especially from the actors in the room.
Cooper previously won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a limited or anthology series or movie, which made him the youngest-ever male acting winner in Emmy history.
Erin Doherty, who plays therapist Briony Ariston in the show, also won for Best Supporting Female Actor. She dedicated her win to therapists, and also dropped a potentially f-bomb that the CBS censors appeared to miss during the show’s US broadcast – US regulators are notoriously fine happy with broadcasters who allow a smidgeon of earthy language to slip into their programming among all the gore and violence.
“I made a promise to my mum I wouldn’t swear, but what the fuck? Holy shit! Sorry mum,” Doherty said.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s screwball US thriller “One Battle After Another,” which centres on an aging revolutionary played by Leonardo DiCaprio, tied with Adolescence with four awards, while there was further British success, of a sort, for the Shakespeare-inspired drama Hamnet, which won for best drama film and best lead actress in a drama for Jessie Buckley. The film was coproduced by Bond, 1917 and The Beatles – A Four Film Cinematic Event helmer Sam Mendes, alongside Steven Spielberg. Charlie Brooker’s long-running favourite Black Mirror left the event empty handed, despite a clutch of nominations.
