Jack Thorne, co-author of Netflix’s criminal drama Adolescence Expressed his praise to the actor and colleague Stephen Graham.
Speak with BBC Radio 2 With Stephen and the host Jo Whiley, Jack credited his writer’s colleague for the powerful concept of the Netflix series.
Adolescence Follows the story of a 13 -year -old boy, Jamie, who is arrested for murdering his classmate. Stephen plays the role of Eddie Miller, Jamie’s father, and also co-wrote the show with Jack.
Jack said, “I thought it was an extraordinary thing to look at, and I thought it was a very important thing to look at.”
“The first thing I said is that if we write it together? And would you be ready to put a different hat with me for the first time?” Jack added. “Working with Stephen as a writer was so exciting. It was so interesting to have a totally different conversation with him before the words were on the page and we had to examine.”
He also continued to share: “We had to understand this problem, in order to look at male anger, male rage, we had to somehow understand our own anger and our own rage, and our own problems and our own cruelty, and the ways of which we were less than perfect.”
“And Stephen and I were able to have very honest discussions, and we went to very dark places, and I think honesty shows the screen,” added Jack Thorne.
In addition, Graham recalled how reports on the young boys involved in fatal stabs led him to develop the show. “I read an article in the newspaper on a young boy who had stabbed a young girl, then a few months later in the news, there was a piece, and it was, once again, a young boy who had stabbed a young girl, and they were opposite ends of the country,” said Stephen Graham.
Adolescence started its first on Netflix on March 13.
