Joe Locke, who plays Charlie Spring, and William Gao, who plays best friend Tao Xu, will be starring in the UK premiere of Dawn King's stage show The Trials.
Meanwhile, Heartstopper's other lead actor Kit Connor has been teasing his return in the upcoming series of His Dark Materials, stating: "I have definitely started [season 3], I'm not quite finished. The Salisbury Poisonings actor Nigel Lindsay and The Bay's Sharon Small play the grown-up defendants. Set in the near-future, the duo join a cast of other young actors to play a young jury who judge the older generation on their response (or lack thereof) to the climate change crisis.
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And that’s what we need to see, and the same with Heartstopper. It makes you feel like you’re not alone, and it’s incredibly positive that we’re seeing that.’ And that’s something that only I only really came to terms with when I went to university and I started meeting gay people.’ ‘The beautiful thing about the story and about seeing yourself on screen and representation as it kind of gives. She picks Rue (Zendaya) up whenever she’s having a bad time, or fallen back into addiction. ‘She comes across as a wise soul in a young body, and she seems more together than the rest of the cast, who are all fairly flawed. ‘And he still carries elements of shame around with them, which most people in the LGBTQ plus community do, because it’s something that is ingrained when you’re younger, and even still for kids.’
Charlie Spring actor Joe Locke and Tao Xu star William Gao have both been announced as part of the cast for the upcoming stage show The Trials, written by Dawn ...
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