Kit Connor and Joe Locke on How Heartstopper Changed Their Lives
7/17/202617 min
Kit Connor and Joe Locke dish about Heartstopper Forever, how Nick and Charlie have grown — plus embarrassing moments and Joe's favorite drag queen.
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First 90 secondsKit Connor· Guest0:03
You have the Charlie Spring dance, though.
Joe Locke· Guest0:04
Of course.
Kit Connor· Guest0:05
Um, it's very like...
Joe Locke· Guest0:06
Yeah.
Kit Connor· Guest0:07
Like that.
Joe Locke· Guest0:08
Yeah.
Kit Connor· Guest0:09
It works.
Joe Locke· Guest0:09
Yeah, it works.
Tia Kofi· Host0:10
Like, also involves a bit of shoulder. Or is it more from the elbow?
Joe Locke· Guest0:13
Not necessarily the shoulder. It's more from the elbow.
Tia Kofi· Host0:14
Interesting.
Kit Connor· Guest0:15
Elbow and- Yeah ... kind of the whole torso moves a little bit.
Speaker 4· Soundbite0:18
For the first time, baby.
Tia Kofi· Host0:20
We really wanna talk about your journeys from season one to this movie moment, and I feel like it's been huge leaps and strides that your characters have made. I mean, you're head boy now.
Joe Locke· Guest0:32
I know.
Tia Kofi· Host0:32
How's that?
Joe Locke· Guest0:33
He's popular now. People like Charlie now.
Tia Kofi· Host0:35
What a turnaround- Not that they didn't, but, like ... from year 10.
Joe Locke· Guest0:37
I know. Charlie in year 10 would never have thought that.
Kit Connor· Guest0:39
Yeah. There's bits where, like, we'll be walking into a party and Charlie gets pulled away, and Nick's like, "[gasps] Oh, okay."
Joe Locke· Guest0:47
Nick's not the popular boy anymore.
Kit Connor· Guest0:48
Nick's, he's not popular anymore.
Joe Locke· Guest0:49
That's- What did he do wrong? That's a shame.
Tia Kofi· Host0:51
I mean, I feel like aside from that, like, the characters are kind of in a way switched, like, their emotional roles. Like, you have a lot of strength now- Mm ... and you're showing a lot more vulnerability. So there's been, like, a, a switch there as, as Nick's anxiety takes hold a little bit more. How has it been playing the antithesis of what your character's played before?
Joe Locke· Guest1:12
Rugby's good, but you should have something outside of school that's just for you. Maybe then you'll start to realize how great you are.
Kit Connor· Guest1:19
It was fun. It felt like in the film we've had the kind of opportunities to play more layers to the characters that we haven't really been able to do previously. The sort of slow