Forget Nicole Kidman and her seal claps, Warren Beatty and his envelope gaffe, or Kieran Culkin and Robert Downey Jr. with their acceptance roasts speeches. The true fun of award season will always be the theater kids who are still actually kids.
Think Quvenzhané Wallis. Jacob Tremblay. Anna Paquin. Haley Joel Osment. Brooklynn Kimberly Prince. The young actors whose breakout roles come in Oscar-worthy movies have their careers made as much by the constant drumbeat of red carpet interviews as by their work onscreen.
This year, television already gave us Adolescence star Owen Cooper. The now-16-year-old made Emmy history as the youngest-ever male actor to win a Primetime Emmy Award. (He’s set up to break a similar record with his nomination for January’s Golden Globes). And Sophia Lillis, 23, already known for starring in the 2017 movie It and other works, appears in two very different high-profile fall series: HBO’s absurdist comedy The Chair Company and Peacock’s abduction thriller All Her Fault.
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