Sean Teale about leaving School
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Found this article in thisislondon where Sean talks about his student life and how it was to leave that behind for now.
"A London schoolboy was plucked from obscurity in the middle of his A-levels to star in the fifth series of hit teen drama Skins.
Sean Teale, 18, will play good-looking but arrogant "alpha-male jock" Nick in the new cast - the third - for the fifth outing of the hit on E4, which returns this Thursday.
But it was only a late switch in focus from sport to drama in his final year at Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith, that secured Sean his TV career, after he decided acting looked more fun.
Sean, from Putney, said: "I thought it was my last chance to really do something so I went for it." By chance, his performance in a school play was spotted by an agent in the audience.
As he was preparing for his A-levels, he began auditions, winning a part alongside Tom Hardy in short film Sergeant Slaughter, My Big Brother.
He then rejected a role that would have wiped out his Easter holiday revision "which kind of felt like I was throwing my life away if I ruined my A-levels".
But the Skins auditions came up, taking place over nine weeks: "Exams were coming and I was thinking, 'Either kill me now, or let me know I haven't got it so I can pay attention to my exams, or let me know and I can rejoice.'"
He was told he had been chosen a week into his
A-levels last summer, the day before his 18th birthday. It left him " absolutely astonished".
Sean, the son of IT consultant Noel and Fini, who is at an advertising design company, got an A in history and Bs in drama and economics.
His character Nick is a rugby captain who dates hot gang leader Mini, and is one of a new group of four boys and four girls at the fictional college in Bristol.
Rugby is one of the sports his agents advised him to renounce for fear of damaging his looks. But he said he had no regrets.
"It's heart-wrenching watching yourself," he said of appearing of television. "But there's nothing more that I enjoy than acting. It doesn't even feel like work."
His mother said the family would have friends over to watch his first appearance - and she would "accept" watching him in some of the show's risqué scenes: "I am going to be so proud seeing him in Skins that I'm sure it will be OK."
The return of the series is being marked with a gig at the Coronet Theatre, Elephant and Castle, on Thursday. Tickets are free from E4.com/skins"
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