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Teenager He opens with a dramatic arrest: 13 -year -old Jimmy is accused of stabbing his colleague Katie to death. The British series consisting of four parts-which decreased on Netflix on March 13 and topped the most watched show list on the broadcast platform this week, according to BBC – He already has famous fans. Paul Fig to praise The first episode As “one of the best TV hours”, he watched it at all, while Jeremy Clarson joined the viewers Expression astonishment and confusion Use the offer for drone in the second episode. (Each episode of Teenager It is photographed in a continuous one that many people wonder online also if this crime drama is a work of real crime. Andrew TateAnd it is real, whether we liked it or not – but is the main murder plot this series also based on reality? Below, what the participant creator and star Stephen Graham said about the inspiration behind Teenager.
Not direct. The story of Jimmy itself is not based on a specific person or event, but for each Birmingham LiveGraham noticed that real reports on the crime of the knife an act Give him an idea of what the series will be. He said: “I read an article in the newspaper about a young boy stabbing a little girl, and made me feel a little cold.” “Then about three of the four months, there was an article on the news about a young boy stabbing a little girl.”
He said Tudum This learning about this is the first stabbing of his “shock” and made him wonder what is going on in society. “Then it happened again, and it happened again, and it happened again,” he remembered. “I really wanted to highlight this, and I ask,” Why is this day happening? “
Yes, and increasingly. Graham said Wonderful Hollywood That there is “an epidemic of the crime of the knife between youth and youth … up and down in the country.” According to National Statistics OfficeThe number of knife attacks in England and Wales has almost doubled in the past ten years. During, Ministry of Justice The data of the year ending in March 2023 shows that 17.3 % of about 18,500 warnings and condemnation provided to possess a knife or offensive weapon was the perpetrators between the ages of 10 and 17.
TeenagerThe release of the 18 -year -old sentence is followed by at least 52 years in prison Three young girls were killed last summer at Taylor Swift dance event In Soutbort when he was 17 years old This attack was “imagined and written months ago” Entertainment weeklyBut the subject matter still feels sorry at the appropriate time. The official in charge of national statistics in February said that 83 % of the teenage killing victims in England and Wales were stabbed to death during the year ending in March 2024; According to BBCThe data showed that teenagers were more likely to kill with a sharp tool on any other age group. Recently last week, he was 18 years old Heal For at least 23 years in prison for a 15 -year -old girl in London when he was 17 years old.
Graham did not call any specific direct inspiration, but he said that his reaction to the knife attacks was the way in which the Jimmy family was filmed in the series. He said Wonderful Hollywood People “blame my mother and my father” when they hear this type of news that involve children from “Council real estate” or British public housing. He admitted that he himself is “guilty” sometimes in falling into this line of thinking. However, he said Rolling Stone UK and The quarterly drama This questioning that the initial instinct made him decide to focus on what was happening with Jimmy and not to make parents violent or alcoholic. “I wanted the father to be a diligent man,” Graham pointed out, “This type of man in which he grew up, like my uncles and my father, who used to go to work at six in the morning and not to return to the house until 8 pm, from Monday to Friday.”
Yes. Many to Some of his fans resentmentand Teenager The names of the self -advertised names and the right -wing extremist star Andrew Tate when the investigator arouses the potential role of the culture of non -voluntary celibacy. in GqGraham, co -writer and co -author of Jack Thorne, attributed to “Incel Stuff” in the series and conducting research on online extremism.
Meanwhile, Graham learned for the first time about Tate through his children. “I was looking on the Internet to something exercise [son] I told me two thousand, and it was a good exercise. “ Rolling Stone UK. “After three or four days, the algorithm – which I do not understand – showed me the same respectable man again, and he was telling me his opinions and hate views.” He has Gq Interview, Graham added It was his daughter Grace that identified and then Tate and explained who he was. He said: “Then I thought, well, I am a 51 -year -old man who knows a little of me and what I am.” “So what if I was a thirteenth boy of my life, he did not have the greatest relationship with my father, and I did not really have this strong relationship with a role model, and he found my feet there?”
