E4 Skins actors Jack O'Connell and Kaya Scodelario are returning to their roles as Cook and Effie this July as part of E4's three-part Skins drama films Skins Rise, Skins Fire and Skins Pure. The first in the series stars O'Connell as Cook now living as a drug peddler in Manchester. Sounds about right considering where the series left off with Cook as the anti-hero screw-up .

O'Connell is more than delighted to reclaim his character, with the young actor saying 'I prefer to think that this isn't the end of Cook and that there is room to explore him further because he's a character that I've really helped develop'He continued to explain the return to the hit show was no big shocker for him as 'when we left, we were under the impression that we would all come back together for a film, so I hadn't put Cook to bed at all [...]It was a no-brainer. I didn't even need to think about it, I was just waiting for them to confirm it to me'. Eh you might have wanted to tell poor Kaya that pal, she was crying her eyes out over the series end apparently.

The lead actress Kaya Scodelario recently claimed 'when I said goodbye to Effy three years ago, I cried my eyes out [...] It was really difficult for all of us to say goodbye as it was our first job. It was hard to go into the world and start auditioning as real actors.' Meanwhile O'Connoll was chilling with a bag of chips and a beer somewhere planning his return.

Speaking about the new film series, Scodelario described it as a continuation in the same vein as a coming of age story. She explained, 'the story is about a lot of different things including friendship, love and redemption but ultimately it's them finding themselves in the world.They are trying to work out what it means to grow up, how you're supposed to know when you've become an adult and what you should do with your life. It's hard to work all that out when you're 20-something. I certainly haven't.' At which point, she cried again...just kidding. With all these Skins extensions, every generation will have a TV show full of rampant sexual exploits and drug use to compare their lives to.