Adolescence Star Faye Marsay backed up calls to prevent children under the age of 16 on social media accounts.
The Game of Thrones Star, who plays detective sergeant Misha Frank in hit Netflix drama about a teenage boy accused of killing a female classmate, said the UK should follow the Australian landmark ban on social media for under-16s.
In November, Australia’s parliament approved a online security amendment amendment amendment that prohibits social media platforms from giving users under 16 access to their services, which threatened companies with fines of up to AU $ 50 million (£ 22.2 million).
Adolescence Follow Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), a 13-year-old boy accused of brutally murdering a young girl. The show has become an immediate success and the center of a national conversation about Incel culture, misogy and the online “manosphere”. As discussed in Parliament, there is an appeal to it to become compulsory viewing in schools.
In an interview with the IMarsay said she believes in an eyeball for eyeball “,” not just typing words on a screen where you don’t have to feel the consequences “.
She talked about the law in Australia and said, “I think we should have the same rules here.”
“We have to go forward with that. It can be helpful. I have never been to social media. ‘
One of the most striking twists in the series comes when it appears that the police misinterpreted the online communication between the children involved in the case because they do not understand the implications of certain emojis.
Marsay said: ‘We don’t give teens enough credit for how smart and articulates they are. If we reach out to them to ask questions about their lives, then eight times out of ten will have a meaningful conversation.
Marsay, which reflects on the success of the show, said it was ‘intense, overwhelming and a little whirlwind’.
“Keir Starmer talked about the show yesterday (March 31) – saying that we should address the ideas of toxic masculinity that affect many young children on social media. They talk about the show Adolescence in schools as part of the curriculum, ”she said.
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“The second before jumping with you on this call, a friend in Stockton told me that it caused a big debate there about knife crime. It all hits, isn’t it? What is great, because that’s exactly what it made to do. ‘
The program broke a British TV rating record and became the first stream program in history to overcome the weekly TV ratings of the UK.
According to the Ratings Body Barb, the first episode of the series was viewed by 6.45 million people. This meant that it was British television crabs including Apprentice and Dead in paradise.
It is also the biggest viewer for any streaming TV program in the UK in a single week, a record previously held by Netflix’s Fool me once in January 2024.
The second episode of the program was second with 5.94 million views, Apprentice and Dead in paradise was in third and fourth place with nearly 5.8 million respectively. Adolescence dominated the rest of the map with its third episode in fifth place with 5.14 million and the final delivery drawing in 4.65 million.
