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He stunned fans with a heart-wrenching performance in Netflix's new hit drama Adolescence, the show on everyone's lips.
But Stephen Graham showed he is not limited to serious roles, looking back on a hilarious music video he shot with Jamie Theakston during Wednesday's Heart Breakfast Show.
Chatting to the actor, 51, as the stunning drama smashes a string of streaming records, host Jamie reminded listeners of Stephen's immense acting range by reflecting on the time they joined forces for Michelle Lawson's Beautiful Thing in 2005.
The presenter, 54, recalled that the pair could not play the instruments they were holding, leaving co-host Amanda Holden, also 54, in hysterics.
Jamie began: 'Stephen won't remember this. Stephen and I were in a pop video together.'
Stephen said: 'No, I do remember. Yeah, yeah.'
Stephen Graham (left) showed he is not limited to serious roles, looking back on a hilarious music video he shot with Jamie Theakston during Wednesday's Heart Breakfast Show
'I think I was the bass. I was the bass,' Stephen laughed, as they reflected on their performance on Michelle Lawson's Beautiful Thing in 2005 (pictured)
'A friend of ours was a director and he needed a band,' Jamie (pictured, in the video) added. 'So Stephen and I and a couple of mates stood in in the background'
'So a friend of ours...' Jamie continued as Stephen recalled: 'Dan Cadan!'
'Yeah, who's a director and he needed a band,' Jamie added. 'So Stephen and I and a couple of mates stood in in the background.'
'Are you pretending to play an instrument?' Amanda asked her colleague. 'Yeah. We are!' they said in unison, causing Amanda to burst into laughter.
Jamie added: 'We hadn't a clue', as Stephen laughed: 'I think I was the bass. I was the bass.'
'And I was on keyboards,' Jamie said. 'Anyway we'll find it.'
Stephen joked: 'Just nodding me head, going like that. Bom, bom, bom. Most bass players just do that anyway.'
The Adolescence actor is no stranger to a music video cameo, appearing in a string of classics during his earlier career, including Travis's Turn in 1999 and Arctic Monkeys' When The Sun Goes Down and Fluorescent Adolescent in 2006 and 2007.
More recently, he has starred in Kasabian's You're In Love With A Psycho and Goldie's I Adore You in 2017, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds's Wandering Star two years later, and Sam Fender's Spit Of You in 2021.
Jamie recalled that the pair could not play the instruments they were holding, leaving co-host Amanda Holden, 54, in hysterics
On Thursday, Jamie was spotted leaving Heart studios carrying a white motorcycle helmet
The radio personality sported a black shacket and black trousers, adding some brown boots
Stephen's mega-hit Adolescence centres on 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), who is accused of murdering a schoolgirl, and is the brainchild of Stephen, who plays the boy's father.
Top Boy actor Ashley Walters takes on the role of DI Luke Bascombe in the critically acclaimed four-part production, uniquely shot in nearly hour-long continuous single takes.
The opening two episodes of four track Jamie's arrest and follow the efforts of DI Bascombe and DS Frank (Faye Marsay) in getting to the bottom of the stabbing.
On Wednesday, Stephen revealed his path to stardom hasn't been the most plain sailing after suffering racial abuse as a child because of his mixed race heritage.
Stephen, whose grandfather was from Jamaica, previously recalled horrible memories of the abuse he endured in his youth.
He told The Sun: 'I'm mixed race. As a kid, I was called horrible words that I don't even want to say, and little monkey boy.'
The actor was brought up by his mother and stepfather Mike - who he calls Pops - but maintained a close relationship with his biological father, also called Stephen.
His stepfather was a head paediatric nurse and his mother, who passed away in 2022, was a social worker.
For Stephen, the This Is England script would often leave him 'crying his eyes' because it would dig up painful nightmares of the racial abuse he suffered.
'After This Is England I could not get a job. For about eight months I couldn’t get an audition. I almost packed it all in. I was going to be a youth worker', he added.
One scene which saw him attacking a black man was particularly tough for Stephen because of his childhood trauma.
Stephen's Adolescence centres on 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper, pictured), who is accused of murdering a schoolgirl, and is the brainchild of Stephen, who plays the boy's father
He said: 'It was life-changing. I lost myself quite a bit within that character.
'I had moments of getting back to my apartment and phoning Hannah [Walters, his wife] and crying my eyes out, and I drank.
'For me that was where I really learned to dive into a character.'
As well as the racial abuse he endured, he has also discussed growing up as a 'working-class from a block of flats'.
While admitting working class families are often treated 'like an art project' and shown as 'miserable' in TV, Stephen claimed British dramas are 'misinterpreted'.
The actor has spoken candidly in the past about his struggles with mental health, revealing that in his early twenties, he battled 'really bad depression' and once attempted to take his own life.
'Thankfully, the rope snapped and I'm here today,' he told The Sunday Times in 2019.
Stephen also discussed how the intense method acting techniques he practiced during drama school affected him deeply, leading to what he described as an 'induced psychosis'.
He explained: 'Method acting is a wonderful practice, and I threw everything at it. I had a couple of incidents and then I felt like I couldn't handle it anymore.'
Stephen recently said working class families are often treated 'like an art project' and claimed British TV is 'misinterpreted' (pictured with his wife Hannah)
He admitted 'losing himself' when he played his breakout role as racist skinhead Combo in Shane Meadow's 2006 film This is England.
He said he used alcohol to cope with the pressure of the role, telling BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs: 'It was life-changing. I lost myself quite a bit within that character.'
Stephen added he would often come home and 'cry my eyes out' after filming intense scenes for the movie.
He said: 'For me, that was where I really learned to dive into a character.'
Stephen broke down in tears as he spoke about his father being his biggest supporter during a heartwarming interview on Wednesday.
The actor idolised Robert De Niro as a child and had a poster of him from the film Taxi Driver on his wall.
Appearing on Capital Breakfast with Jordan North, Chris Stark and Sian Welby, Stephen told how his dad was his biggest supporter.
He said: 'I had posters on my wall, of Taxi Driver, and different actors that my dad had got me.'
Stephen broke down in tears as he spoke about his father being his biggest supporter during a heartwarming interview on Wednesday
'And then you ended up working with them,' co-host Jordan North said.
'Telling your dad…' fellow co-host Sian Welby added. 'It must have been the proudest moment.'
Becoming emotional, Stephen said: 'It makes me….want to go on it…'
He went on: 'I went 'dad, you'll never guess who, I'm going to be working with' and he's like 'who' and I went 'Mary's asked me to do a film again' and he's like 'that's amazing son!'
'I went 'yeah' oh…I've gone! You know, he proper backed me. And me mum. They supported me throughout everything. Do you know what I mean?
'All the struggles you go through and everything. Me contact lens has fallen out! And he was, yeah, you can imagine it was unbelievable.'
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