Nathan Young - one of the main characters in the series "Garbage" in the first and second seasons. Thanks to his rude and provocative behavior, he became the most striking and memorable hero.
List of characters and their abilities
The series "Garbage" talks about a group of teenagers at workout. Lightning strikes young people and they acquire superpowers. Gopnitsa Kelly can read the thoughts of others. Runner Curtis winds back under stress. The modest Simon turns into invisibility. Beauty Alisha causes an irresistible sexual desire in all men who have touched her. All the forces received in a strange way resonate with the characters' characters. And only the merry fellow and the joker Nathan can not find his abilities.
Crime and Punishment
How did you get to Nathan Community Center? "Dregs" talk about juvenile delinquents who have committed minor offenses, and for this sentenced to community service. The act of the hero was not serious. The guy received the punishment for the theft. As he said to Kelly, "ate a couple of sweets."
In fact, Young was in the police because of his character. He attracted the attention of the manager of the bowling club when he took drinks and sweets without payment. To the demand to pay for what was eaten and drunk, Neyton refused, after which he began to mock a manager named Beverly, calling him a woman. When the guard detained the guy, he imitated an epileptic seizure.
The manager wanted to meet the stumbling teenager, offering to pay for sweets or call parents. Nathan refused the help of his father who arrived, and a club employee called the police.
The guy’s mother kicked him out of the house, because because of his behavior, she could not build a new relationship. Young settled in a community center.
Nathan's abilities in season one
The series "Dregs", the 1st season of which has become incredibly popular, tells of adolescents who received superpowers. Nathan’s strength was most recent. All the first season he wondered what opportunities he could get. I tried to fly, climb walls and explode objects with the power of thought. The last, sixth episode of the season ends with Young's death. He accidentally falls from the roof with a girl who was brainwashing everyone. In the second season, Nathan woke up in a coffin and found out that his superpower is immortality.
Nathan's abilities in season two
We continue to talk about Nathan from the series "Garbage." Season 1 spoke in detail about the punished teenagers, in the second season, the abilities themselves were in focus. In the second episode of the season, Nathan meets his half-brother Jamie and girlfriend Lily. Together, young people go to a club where they take a drug that turns inside-out abilities. Lily, capable of cryokinesis, becomes flammable and explodes with Jamie in the car.
Later, Nathan learns from his father that Jamie died during the explosion, and realizes that he sees the ghost of his brother. So he learns that he can see the dead.
In the seventh episode, Nathan sells his power to Seth's ability seller and gives the money to his pregnant girlfriend Marnie. He buys the ability to illusion.
A special “zero” episode of the third season tells why Young is disappearing from the series. Having received a new ability, the hero, together with his girlfriend and child, travels to Las Vegas to get rich. He is caught there on cheating - the hero cheats while playing dice and the number 7 drops out on one of the dice, which cannot be. So it turns out in Nathan prison. "Dregs" continue without him.
Personality
Let's talk about the personality and character traits that Nathan possesses. "Dregs" talk about troubled teens. Each character has certain difficulties with socialization. Young can be called spontaneous, hyper-excitable and overly impudent. He does not notice the feelings of other people, and often touches them with his jokes. Despite the natural charm, the girls are not enjoying success, largely because of their inappropriate jokes.
The series "Dregs" focuses on adolescents themselves. Nathan is the only character whose relationship with parents is shown in detail. The families of the other guys are always behind the scenes. Nathan's mother kicked her son out of the house, as he was jealous of her and interfered with relations with men. He accused one of his mother's lovers of harassment. Relations with his father are also cold. But throughout the series, we see how contact with parents is getting better.
The hero takes care of his friends, although from the outside it seems that he is indifferent to them. Nathan not only often makes fun of Simon, he can not even remember the name of a friend, constantly calling him Barry. However, when Simon is in danger, Nathan Young makes every effort to save him.
Relations
In a series about teenagers, it's impossible to do without a love line. Nathan skirts over every skirt, but usually girls avoid him. The first beauty that he manages to achieve in the series turns out to be an eighty-year-old woman.
From the very beginning, the mutual sympathy of Nathan and Kelly is noticeable. Young people are gradually getting closer, taking care of each other. However, when they kiss for the first time, they immediately realize that they relate to each other like a brother and sister.
At the end of the second season, Nathan meets a homeless pregnant girl Marnie. It was she who aroused a sense of responsibility in him. Young realized: to take care of Marnie and her child, you need to earn a lot of money. He sells his power, buys the ability to illusion, and leaves for Las Vegas.
Robert Skien Biography
The audience fell in love with Young Nathan. "Garbage" has become a good springboard for the career of a young actor. Who played the role of the main character of the first two seasons of the series? It was Irish Robert Sheehan. "Garbage" was not the first project in which the actor took part. He began acting in childhood, but the roles were mostly episodic.
Robert Michael Sheen was born into the family of Joe and Maria Sheen. His father is a policeman. Robert is the third child. The career of the young man was occupied by his mother, she drove him to auditions and acted as a manager. Skien has no professional acting education. He studied in various drama circles, enrolled in the specialty "Acting and Television Education" at Galvo-May Technical University, but dropped out of studies a year later.
Reason for leaving the series
The starring role for Robert was the character Nathan (“Garbage”). The actor starred in two seasons of the popular series and announced his departure from the project to participate in the filming of a big movie. In 2011, he played the role of Kai in the movie “Time of the Witches”, the role of Ivan McCormick in “Kill Bono” and Spiller in “Booty”. In 2013, he was noted in the film "The Instruments of Death: City of Bones."