Mitch Hewer has said he had to learn how to act on the set of Skins.

Talking at the launch of his new TV show, the young star said: “Skins for me was terrifying. This is still the same but when I was on Skins it was kind of like ‘oh my God’, because I’d never acted in my life when I got the job.

“So I was learning how to act on set, and tried to learn off the cast, learned off the directors. I was lucky, my Dad was played by Bill Bailey and Harry Enfield was on set and so I just tried my hardest to learn. It was like an extension from college,” he said.

Luckily his casting in the teen drama led to good things – a role in Arlene Phillip’s new TV series Britannia High.

“It came off the back of my old job to be honest. Arlene’s daughter spotted me apparently in Skins. And then it just came on from there. It was like ‘OK we need to see this guy’, and I had an audition. It was about seven or eight hours – it was a long audition,” he said.
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The first episode of Britannia High will be broadcast online in October – a week before it goes out on TV – on the Britannia High website www.itv.com/britanniahigh.

Source: http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/showbiz/Mitch-Hewer-Skins-terrifying/article-353617-detail/article.html