An Oscar-winning actress is rumoured to be joining the second series of the titanic Netflix hit Adolescence.
The four-episode miniseries gripped the nation in its tale of a young man’s descent into the ‘manosphere’ after he brutally murders a 13-year-old classmate.
Starring Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty, it also made a star of Owen Cooper, who played killer Jamie.
Plans are now said to be underway on a second series, according to star and executive producer Stephen Graham.
While it’s still some ways off (‘three or four years,’ according to the man himself), it’s been reported that a key role has already been filled.
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If true, this means that Kate Winslet will appear in Adolescence’s second series.
‘It’s happening and in development. There’s excitement that Kate [Winslet] is on board,’ a source told Daily Mail.
Kate, 50, is best known for her roles in Hollywood hits Titanic, The Holiday and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
In 2009, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as former Nazi guard Hanna Shmitz in the drama The Reader.
She has also been nominated for her work in Sense & Sensibility, Titanic, Iris, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Children and Steve Jobs.
Her TV work includes the critically-acclaimed HBO series Mare of Easttown, Mildred Pearce and The Regime.
In 2022, she appeared in the Channel 4 film I Am Ruth, which explored the destructive relationship between a woman and her troubled teenage child – played by Kate’s real-life daughter, Mia Threapleton.
In a strange twist of fate, Kate was 20 when she took home Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role at the SAG-AFTRA in 1996 for Sense & Sensibility.
This made her the youngest actor or actress to ever take home a trophy at the event.
It was a distinction she held until this year, when her record was finally displaced… by 16-year-old Owen Cooper.
Owen also made history by becoming the youngest ever actor to win an Emmy last September.
Taking to the stage in Los Angeles, he said: ‘Honestly, when I started these drama classes a couple years back, I didn’t expect to be even in the United States, never mind here.
‘But I think tonight proves that if you listen and you focus and you step out your comfort zone, you can achieve anything in life.’
He added: ‘I was nothing about three years ago, and I’m here now.’
It’s too soon to say what Adolescence’s second series will be about, but writer Jack Thorne knows what it won’t be doing.
Speaking to Metro, he revealed that he has no plans to revisit the Miller family, as ‘any attempt to go back into it would weaken the story we’ve told already.’
He also won’t be exploring the ‘femosphere’ – a part of the Internet seen as the female equivalent and reaction to the manosphere.
‘I don’t think I’m the right writer for that, for very crucial reasons. But I look forward to someone doing a show about it,’ he said.
Metro has reached out to Netflix and Kate Winslet’s representatives for comment.