Richard Osman

And then he said, I wonder if I can send him my own video.

self-tape for this so did and just before he's about to go back to Australia gets this part and you know now is an Oscar nominee so it was really really the making of him something else would have made him because he's terrific but this was the show that that really saw him through the skins comparison you made is very very interesting because occasionally a show will come along that will make a generation of actors yeah

And this really, really did in the States, particularly with those three.

But Skins in the UK, which, as you said, is a similar proposition, which is this is what teens are really like.

And suddenly everything else about teens looks ridiculous.

And on that show, you had Dev Patel, who was a non-actor before that.

You know, so that was his first thing.

You had Daniel Kaluuya, who had actually done all sorts of things, but was writing on Skins as well.

You had Nicholas Holt.

who had been in about a boy, but you know, was a was a child actor and was a little nerdy little boy.

And then was like, it was like that.

Jack O'Connell was in it again and made an absolute generation of actors.

So anything where you have to cast teens to try and be teens seems to be that seems to be the sweet spot for creating a generation of Oscar nominees.

Yeah.

Angus Cloud died.

And again, he was street auditioned, Angus Cloud, which is something they tried to do for this.

In fact, Zendaya's part was originally they'd found someone on the street who they thought could play that part.

Yeah, he passed away.

So there's a lot of behind the scenes drama as well that ties into all of this.

Tell me a bit about Sam Levinson then, because, you know, I keep reading, I keep reading like allusions to this being a troubled set.