Owen Cooper simply made Emmys historical past together with his ‘Adolescence’ win. Subsequent, he’ll seem on the large display screen alongside Margot Robbie.

Owen Cooper is an Emmy winner — a historic one at that. The 15-year-old actor, who starred within the Netflix sequence Adolescence as a younger boy who’s arrested for a horrific crime, grew to become the youngest ever male winner throughout all performing classes when he took residence the award for Excellent Supporting Actor in a Restricted or Anthology Sequence or Film.

Cooper was an entire unknown when he was solid in Adolescence — the streaming present was his first performing gig ever. In an interview with Selection again in March, when the present first premiered, he mentioned, “I solely actually wished to start out performing a few years in the past. It’s not been lengthy. I grew up eager to be a footballer. I don’t know what it was that made me wish to do it, however I simply wished to do it. Then I went to classes and loved it and ultimately acquired a self-tape request. All the things got here from that, actually.”

Now, the query many have for Cooper is … what’s subsequent?

He’ll crew up with one other Emmy nominee

Cooper is subsequent slated to seem in Movie Membership, an upcoming BBC sequence that was cowritten by White Lotus Emmy nominee Aimee Lou Wooden, who may also star within the present. The romantic comedy sequence follows a girl, performed by Wooden, who hosts a “movie membership” in her storage along with her greatest good friend Noa (Nabhaan Rizwan) — whom she is secretly in love with and who’s doubtlessly taking a job that may separate them. Cooper performs Wooden’s neighbor, Dominic.

In a March interview with Vogue, he referred to as Wooden “in all probability one of many funniest folks I’ve ever met.”

He’s starring in Wuthering Heights

Cooper’s first huge display screen function is a serious one: He’ll seem as a younger Heathcliff in Promising Younger Lady and Saltburn director Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation. He advised Selection that the function got here after Stephen Graham, his costar on Adolescence, beneficial him to his agent, who watched the primary episode of Adolescence and pushed him for the Wuthering Heights function.

Of his costars Jacob Elordi, who performs the older model of Cooper’s character, and Margot Robbie, who portrays Catherine Earnshaw, Cooper advised Selection, “Jacob’s beautiful. He’s all the time chatting to everybody. And identical as Margot. Margot is beautiful as effectively.”

Cooper has hinted at what he needs to do subsequent

May an motion film be in Cooper’s future? He advised Vogue in March that he would “love” to “do stunts” for an upcoming function. “Most likely not like Tom Cruise,” Cooper mentioned. “I’m scared sufficient occurring roller-coasters, not to mention hanging off the facet of a airplane. However leaping off the facet of a cliff into the water? I may in all probability do this.”

He additionally expressed admiration for the work of Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. And in an April interview with the Hollywood Reporter, he referred to as Jake Gyllenhaal his favourite actor of all time.