Record-breaking Emmy winner Owen Cooper received a big surprise and a sweet gift from his hero, Jake Gyllenhaal, ahead of the award ceremony that saw him become the youngest male winner ever.

The Adolescence star, 15, won the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie award at the ceremony in LA’s Peacock Theatre, after Gyllenhaal had given him a small “lucky duck” as a present.

Cooper had spoken about wanting to meet his hero, saying on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that “I want to get there [to the Emmys], do all the media and then just chew Jake Gyllenhaal’s ear off all night,” adding meeting the Night Crawler icon, 44, was his “number one priority.”

Netflix posted a clip of the pair’s meeting, where an unaware Cooper was in the middle of an interview in a hotel ro

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