No, for “Adolescence”, a white actor was not chosen to portray the crime of a black boy.
On March 20, 2025, a post was published on X about the new Netflix TV series Adolescence, “based on real events”, “which tells the story of a 13-year-old English murderer who stabbed a girl to death in Southport.” According to the post, “the real murderer is named Hassan Sentamu, a second-generation African immigrant” (shown in the first photo attached to the post), but “to play his role, they chose a white boy” (second photo in the post). The post spreads false information. On March 13, 2025, Netflix released a TV series titled Adolescence, which tells the story of how the life of a family is turned upside down when 13-year-old Jamie Miller (played by actor Owen Cooper, shown in the photo on the right of the post) is arrested for the murder of a teenage girl from his school. You can find the full article from Facta HERE.
