Heartstopper's Joe Locke dreams of receiving 'hate tweet' from Donald Trump

Actor Joe Locke has revealed helium wants to person a brutal tweet from erstwhile US President Donald Trump who is presently seeking to beryllium re-elected

Joe Locke wants to get "hate-tweeted" by Donald Trump.

The 21-year-old histrion is champion known for playing Charlie Spring successful 'Heartstopper', and helium admitted helium is amazed the Netflix play - which is centred connected the romance betwixt his quality and Kit Connor's Nick Nelson - hasn't attracted much vocal disapproval from definite areas.

Joe told The Guardian's Saturday magazine: "This world is simply a precise scary spot sometimes, and it feels a spot weird that 'Heartstopper' has astir been immune to that a batch of queer shows get a batch of hatred from rightwing groups, and 'Heartstopper' doesn't, and I don't truly recognize why. You'll often perceive Trump supporters talking astir queer radical and queer shows. I privation to get hate-tweeted by Donald Trump!"

Joe came retired arsenic cheery to his mum erstwhile helium was 12 years aged and his friends not agelong afterwards, but helium doesn't consciousness actors request to stock their characters' sexuality. He said: "I wouldn't privation to not beryllium capable to play a consecutive character, truthful I don't deliberation it's just to halt idiosyncratic consecutive who tin bash each the probe from playing a cheery character. As agelong arsenic you're playing a portion authentically and with the champion intentions, you're not conscionable playing a stereotype, past spell for it."

In the latest bid of Heartstopper, which was released by Netflix past week, Joe and Kit's characters instrumentality their narration to a caller level arsenic they research intimacy and much grown-up topics. Speaking astir their caller scenes, Joe told DigitalSpy: "It's weird, it's ever going to beryllium weird doing thing similar that but, I deliberation we each knew it was clip for them to take that measurement and we'd person been making jokes forever, like, 'Why won't they just…' truthful we were ready, but our intimacy coordinator David Thackery truly worked with us. It's similar a dance. Filming enactment scenes is conscionable weird."

Meanwhile, Kit revealed they had "sort of cups" to "keep everything safe" portion they were acting retired the raunchy scenes for the archetypal time. But things became ace awkward arsenic helium aboriginal revealed it was a "strange environment" to enactment successful owed to it being a "fake bedroom" built connected a TV set.

He told the outlet that owed to not being an authentic location, the rooms are "quite squeaky" and the furniture is "quite squeaky". He added: "So I was thinking, travel on, guys, you know, we're filming a enactment country here. You know, you're going to person to grounds sound. Put thing down. Yeah and play three, this has been happening for 3 years but we yet got to the enactment scenes and it was beauteous creaky."

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