{"id":586109,"date":"2026-07-15T01:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/586109\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T01:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:08:14","slug":"kit-connor-joe-locke-lead-heartstopper-forever-cast-at-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/586109\/","title":{"rendered":"Kit Connor, Joe Locke Lead ‘Heartstopper Forever’ Cast at Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe dress code at the world premiere of Heartstopper Forever<\/a> in London\u2019s Leicester Square on Tuesday night? \u201cYour best self \u2014\u00a0however that looks to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat was the guidance from Netflix<\/a> in the lead-up to the star-studded event, which had Kit Connor<\/a>, Joe Locke<\/a> and Alice Oseman on the carpet, greeting fans and talking to press at the Cineworld theater.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe event began with an interactive quiz for attendees, who were probed on their Heartstopper<\/a> trivia. \u201cWhat is Nick\u2019s brother\u2019s name?\u201d and \u201cWhere was Nick and Charlie\u2019s first holiday together?\u201d were among the questions, read out by internet personality and BookTok star Jack Edwards.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film, the conclusive ending to the three Heartstopper seasons adapted from Alice Oseman\u2019s graphic novel, is set to follow Charlie (Locke) and Nick (Connor)\u2019s biggest relationship hurdle yet. They\u2019re on the precipice of change \u2014\u00a0unable to imagine life without each other \u2014\u00a0but Nick is heading off to university. Charlie finds new independence at school in his absence, and the long-distance relationship begins to weigh on them.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the end of the screening, the two lead stars and Oseman were hosted for a short Q&A, where Connor explained that he actually revelled in getting to contradict Nick\u2019s usually buoyant personality in this film. \u201cIt\u2019s very moving to be in the room with everyone,\u201d the Warfare star began. \u201cIt\u2019s worth saying that a lot of it was there in the writing and the characters that Alice has built over the comics and also over the last three seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was trying to use that to my advantage in the sense that we\u2019ve seen this character in the first two seasons be a ray of sunshine and this golden light \u2014\u00a0an answer to a lot of the problems \u2014 so for the audience to see this character go up against these kinds of issues and these kinds of things [I thought] would do a lot of the work for me. To be honest,\u201d he continued, \u201cit would just be such a sort of contradiction and such a shock for people to see going through these things, so I was just trying to ride that wave.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe group also joked about the comparative raciness of this instalment compared to the TV series, with Locke saying about the enormous Cineworld screen: \u201cThe screen is so big\u2026 My mum is here watching me get a blowjob onscreen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBoth of them spoke on the media line about the need to depict young, queer relationships as honestly and organically as possible, which includes Charlie and Nick exploring intimacy even further in Heartstopper Forever<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tHeartstopper is one of Netflix\u2019s most popular shows and launched the careers of Locke and Connor, as well as cast members such as Yasmin Finney, William Gao, Rhea Norwood, Corinna Brown, and Sebastian Croft. A huge majority of the cast made an appearance at Tuesday night\u2019s premiere, as well as their co-stars Tobie Donovan, Kizzy Edgell, Jenny Walser, Fisayo Akinade, Nima Taleghani, Leila Khan, Bradley Riches, Darragh Hand, and\u00a0Bel Priestley.<\/p>\n

\n\tOseman wrote the finale film. Wash Westmoreland directs Heartstopper Forever, produced by See-Saw Films. Patrick Walters, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Oseman, Euros Lyn, as well as both Locke and Connor executive produced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dress code at the world premiere of Heartstopper Forever in London\u2019s Leicester Square on Tuesday night? \u201cYour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,170441,248845,19,1452,17,197774,197775,127,393],"class_list":["post-586109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-heartstopper","tag-heartstopper-forever","tag-ie","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-joe-locke","tag-kit-connor","tag-netflix","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116921323157533581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}