Roundview School ceaselessly! Throughout its seven years on the air, the U.Okay. version of Skins launched the world to a ton of future stars, together with Daniel Kaluuya and Dev Patel.
The beloved drama, which premiered in January 2007, adopted a bunch of British youngsters over the 2 years of sixth kind (equal to junior and senior years of American highschool). Greater than a decade earlier than Euphoria debuted, the scholars of Skins triggered panic amongst dad and mom who apprehensive that their children would imitate the characters’ rampant drug use.
Nicholas Hoult, who performed Tony Stonem, admitted that Skins wasn’t an correct depiction of “everybody’s teenage life,” however he defended its story strains as being believable. “It’s perhaps heightened for leisure however all of it’s plausible,” he advised The Guardian in January 2008. “I can consider somebody I do know who’s like each character.”
Each two seasons, producers centered on a largely new set of characters because the earlier ones graduated from Roundview. This meant that the already massive ensemble forged stored rising because the years handed, with among the present’s most beloved forged members making their debuts in season 3 or later.
Kaluuya, nonetheless, made his first Skins look within the second episode of season 1, which aired within the U.Okay. in February 2007. The Oscar winner performed Posh Kenneth, an outgoing DJ and rapper who was shut with Anwar (Patel).
The Queen & Slim star has since appeared in a Marvel film and a number of other critically acclaimed award winners, however he nonetheless fondly remembers his time on Skins. “That was sick,” the Nope actor advised the BBC’s Nick Grimshaw in February 2020, recalling a season 2 episode the place Posh Kenneth kissed two completely different ladies. “I used to be 18. I used to be like, ‘That is the life.’”
Kaluuya was discussing the present as a part of a section the place he tried to recollect strains from his most well-known roles. For his ultimate problem, Grimshaw requested him if he might recall Kenneth’s rap from season 2 greater than 12 years later — and he might.
“I correct memorized it,” the Get Out star defined after reciting the complete track. “If I’m doing a speech, although, I’ll always remember it.”
He additionally joked that a part of the rationale he remembered it so nicely is as a result of he helped pen the monitor. “I cowrote it, so I’m not like different artists that don’t write their lyrics,” Kaluuya quipped. “I do know my artwork.”
Preserve scrolling to see the place the U.Okay. Skins forged is now.
