Adolescence star Owen Cooper shared the reaction his schoolmates had after his dramatic haircut for his breakout role.

The 15-year-old actor is the lead star of the most-watched Netflix limited series ever, notching up a whopping 66 million views in two weeks as it tops charts and sparks national conversation.

The rising star plays 13-year-old Jamie, a schoolboy accused of murdering his classmate, Katie Leonard, as we watch the fallout of this horrifying incident.

After becoming one of the most talked about shows on 2025, Netflix released Owen’s impressive audition tape for his debut role, with his hair noticeably longer than it is in the show.

Co-star Erin Docherty pointed out the huge fringe he used to have in a reaction video, joking: ‘Oh my god, look at you! Why is your hair doing that?’

To which the Wuthering Heights star replied: ‘Because that’s what I… that’s what my head used to look like.’

Now, he has revealed that Erin isn’t the only one who plenty to say about his haircut, in a new interview on This Morning.

He appeared on the show with his co-star Faye Marsay and hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard to discuss the show and its ongoing success.

When Ben said: ‘When Owen sat down I said “you’ve got to tell me how you’ve managed to cut your fringe off” because all the teenage boys at the moment including mine have this ridiculous thing going on at the front’ popping three fingers on his forehead.

He added: ‘And you were saying it was for the role?’

Owen replied: ‘It was for the role and it does really fit the role as well.’

Ben said: ‘But you’ve got to go back to school on Monday without your floppy bits?’ to which Owen replied: ‘No I’ve been in school without all this and there was about a week where I got taken the mick out of.’

Luckily it didn’t last, as he added: ‘But that was about it, they’ve all got over it now.’ Before quickly shooting down Faye’s suggestion to get a clip-on attachment.

Owen Cooper joked that his friends took the mick out of his new haircut – with plans to return to school on Monday (Picture: Netflix)
He has had a tutor while filming Emerald Fennel’s Wuthering Heights where he plays a young Heathcliff.

The actor briefly reflected on the experience during his chat, adding: ‘I see [Margot Robbie] all the time but I don’t have any scenes with her. She is really nice.

‘Filming wise it’s fine, it’s a lot different but it is going really well.’

He will return to school this Monday, a prospect he is primed and prepped for no matter the circumstance.

‘I wanna see my mates but it will either be a really good day or bad day,’ he posed to which Faye reassured him it would be great.

Faye, who played DS Misha Frank, had nothing but praise for Owen’s acting skills. She even recalled one moment when she showed Owen a picture of the victim Katie Leonard and mistakenly called her ‘Katie Miller’ to which Owen effortlessly replied with a correction.

He will next star in Wuthering Heights and Film Club (Picture: ITV)
It’s not the only moment he improvised during the show. When he appeared on The One Show a few weeks ago he revealed that the moment he yawned in episode three was an accident brilliantly covered up by Erin who simply asked: ‘Am I boring you?’.

And in another moment that episode, he managed to correct Erin’s slip up when she called an Instagram page a ‘Facebook page’ instead – with Owen taking the opportunity to make Jamie shame her.

In an interview with Metro, Owen opened up about ‘the most challenging part’ of playing Jamie.

All four episodes are shot in one take – making for plenty of improvised moments (Picture: Netflix)
He said: ‘The most challenging part for me was I did episode three first, and it was just trying to get into Jamie’s head about girls and stuff,’ Owen said, referencing the episode where Jamie is having a one-on-one conversation with psychologist Briony Ariston (Erin).

‘That aspect of it was a bit difficult at first, but then I got comfortable with it, and then with the help of Stephen and Phil [director Philip Barantini] and Erin, they helped me into it. But I’ll probably say his view on other people is the most challenging part of Jamie to play.’