Stephen Graham has been lauded for his role in the Netflix drama Adolescence, in which he plays the dad of a boy accused of murdering a classmate, and he got emotional talking about his own father

Adolescence has been a huge hit for Netflix, drawing in 24.3 million views in its first four days on the streaming site.Each episode of the gripping drama, which stars big names like Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters and newcomer Owen Cooper,

According to Theatre News, lead actors in UK dramas typically earn between £15,000 and £50,000 per episode. For Adolescence, they estimated Stephen Graham’s pay to be somewhere between £30,000 and £50,000 per episode. With four episodes in the limited series, that would put his total pay at around £200,000.