As Owen Cooper’s breakout role in Adolescence wins 24 million viewers, how mum’s hour-long drives to drama classes turned a footie-mad lad from Warrington into the biggest child star on the planet

Owen Cooper’s mum Noreen has a video of her son, then aged three, dancing in the living room of the family home in Warrington.

Dressed in a red onesie, his piercing blue eyes peering out from beneath a mass of dark curls, he is jumping around to the pop song Gangnam Style, jiggling his hips and waving his arms in delight.