"For a while, Erin Doherty ignored Stephen Graham's calls. Not deliberately, she stresses with a laugh. I'm just really bad at my phone. I'm such a technophobe, and he knew that, she says. They had made the Disney+ show A Thousand Blows together, in which Doherty plays an East End crime boss in Victorian London, and Graham had talked about an idea he wanted to dramatise, about a teenage boy who is catastrophically radicalised by online misogyny."
"A couple of months after they'd wrapped A Thousand Blows, Graham and his wife and producing partner, Hannah Walters, kept trying to get in touch. I was getting voice notes from him and Hannah being like, Erin, pick up your phone!' Doherty's girlfriend told her to ring him back and Graham offered her the role in Adolescence. She said yes on the spot, without reading the script."
"She is chatty and down-to-earth, even in the year her career went stellar. As well as starring in A Thousand Blows, her role in Adolescence as Briony Ariston, a psychologist won her an Emmy for best supporting actress. But you do know when you're a part of something that's good and deserves to be seen, and we knew that about it."
Erin Doherty initially ignored Stephen Graham's calls because she is technophobic. She had worked with Graham on A Thousand Blows, in which she plays a Victorian East End crime boss. Graham and his wife Hannah Walters pursued her for a role in Adolescence about a teenage boy radically influenced by online misogyny. Doherty accepted the part without reading the script. Adolescence premiered on Netflix and reached nearly 150 million views, was screened in secondary schools, and prompted invitations to Downing Street. Doherty won an Emmy for best supporting actress for playing psychologist Briony Ariston in a tense one‑take episode.
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