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Joe Locke has had arguably one of many greatest younger careers in recent times.Joe’s very first appearing tasks have been Netflix’s Heartstopper, the place he stars as Charlie Spring, after which he adopted it up with Marvel’s Agatha All Alongside, enjoying Wanda Maximoff’s son, Billy.So, to rejoice Agatha All Alongside, Heartstopper, his Broadway debut in Sweeney Todd, and a lot extra, we caught up with Joe to speak about every part in a recreation of First Occasions.He recalled his first — of MANY — auditions for Marvel, with the primary audition together with studying the scene when Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) interrogates Billy in Episode 1.Joe additionally revealed that a whole lot of Heartstopper is definitely improvised, saying, “There’s a whole lot of montages and so, within the script it’s going to simply be like, ‘Nick and Charlie play within the snow.’ Numerous it’s improv. I’m not one of the best at improv. I am nice at improv if I am, like, not being so good to somebody as a result of it is simpler. However, like, Heartstopper improv is a whole lot of comfortable, good stuff, so Equipment is much better at that than me, so he leads it usually.”And he even teased the upcoming Heartstopper film, which would be the closing installment. He informed us, “It’s grown up extra. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless Heartstopper. I feel we’re making an attempt to essentially make it cinematic as attainable and actually end the story in a very nice means.”And heck, we even had time to ask some questions not associated to Joe’s impeccable appearing profession to this point, like who his first superstar crush was.And make sure to watch him in Agatha All Alongside and Heartstopper, with every streaming on Disney+ and Netflix now.In search of extra LGBTQ+ or Delight content material? Then try all of BuzzFeed’s posts celebrating Delight 2025.
