"All in one shot":Erin Doherty shares filming experience from latest Netflix hit Adolescence

Netflix's latest psychological crime drama Adolescence has been gracing the top spots on streaming charts for quite some time now and even months after the show premiered, it keeps garnering quite some attention from a range of viewers. The story revolves around a teenage boy whose life is turned upside down after he is taken into custody in connections to the killing of one of his schoolmates.

The series mostly chronicles through the aftermath of the incident and how the subject's family struggles through the investigation - not to mention the kind of social media tumult that resulted (on the show as well as in real life). Recently, one of the stars from Adolescence, Erin Doherty has shared her filming experience on The Tonight Show when she was asked about how the episodes were shot. To quote her exact reply (she confirmed):

"Yeah. All in one shot."

Adolescence star Erin Doherty recalls her days from the set of the hit British crime drama

While recently talking on The Tonight Show, Erin Doherty vividly recalled her days from the set of Adolescence and also shared her filming experiences with Jimmy Fallon & the audience. Doherty, on being asked about how she took up the challenging one-take shots, said that she was heavily influenced by the 2021 drama film Boiling Point (where the same shooting method was reportedly implemented) starring Stephen Graham, the creator of Adolescence.

The movie was directed by Philip Barantini who is also at the helm of the Netflix crime show (and here he reimplemented his filming technique). Doherty expressed her enthusiasm about the same, speaking highly of the creative team, saying:

"And I'd seen him in that and was like, 'I need to do this with my life'. I was just like, 'That's going to be everything that I need'."

However, Erin Doherty also explained how things would work out on set if the director's cue came at the wrong time or, to quote Jimmy Fallon:

"He moved his hand the wrong way?"

Erin justified the above situation saying that director Philip Barantini would encourage such things and charge up the stars saying (as Doherty mentioned in the interview):

"For whatever reason, you may veer off the path that we have chosen, but that's a gift and lean into that."

So, even though mistakes kept happening that would not disrupt the flow of the acting and cameras would roll anyway. According to Doherty's statement, the particular episode she starred in was wrapped on the 11th take but all in one go.

She also talked about a sequence where Owen was on camera and "was yawning' by mistake. And Doherty along with her co-star improvized one of her lines and that was taken in the finally decided shot. Looking back at Barantini's statement to Netflix in March, it all sums up to:

"Basically, that means we press record on the camera and we don’t press stop until the very end of the hour."

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