- It did mean there were a
couple of kissing scenes
where I was punished deeply.
By the-
- This makes me sound like a really bad person.
- Hi, we're the cast of 'Heartstopper'.
- My name is William Gao and I am playing Tao Xu.
- My name is Kit Connor and I'm playing Nick Nelson.
- My name is Joe Locke and I'm playing Charlie Spring.
My name is Yasmin Finney and I'm playing Elle.
- I had a scene
where I was playing rugby,
it was my first time doing a rugby scene,
and there was two proper rugby teams playing
and I basically am
playing the star rugby players.
So I had to do a combination of moves,
you know, just run around people,
kick it, catch it, and then score a try.
And it took me many, many, many times.
And I think there was literally a point
where someone was just like,
“Can you just let him score?"
Because it was that bad.
So that was my embarrassing moment.
- But you tried, though.
- I tried.
- You tried, he tried.
- One of the running scenes,
I had to ask the extras to slow down
because I
was supposed to be
this incredible runner and every take,
they were just slowly getting closer to me.
Can you guys just, like, slow down a bit?
Which was very embarrassing.
- Oh, I don't know.
- One of those two? -
- I think we all, we're all similar
- We all definitely have certain things.
- We’ve got similarities.
That was such anticlimactic, like-
- Yeah.
- No, I think you somewhat resemble.
- I think I do. I think I do.
But I think we all do.
- Yeah.
- I think we all do in our own special way.
- Probably why we were cast, actually.
- Yeah.
- Although,
Will's probably a little bit taller.
- A little bit taller.
- I'm a little bit, I'm a little bit shorter.
- I'm a little bit shorter
because Elle’s actually six foot two in the novel.
- I can't play the drums,
so there's a difference.
- I can't draw.
- And Kit can't play rugby.
- I can’t play rugby.
- I'm joking, Kit's very good at rugby.
- Oh,
I would say one of these.
- I never fluffed up a line.
- Me?! You did, once or twice.
- You did, once or twice.
- When did I fluff up a line?
- Va, va, va.
- I just fluffed up a line.
- On the first day,
I really fluffed a lot of lines.
I think I was really nervous on the first day.
On the first take,
I just couldn’t-
- It was snowing,
we were sat on this bench and it was like
two degrees and it was snowing
and we were all sat there for four hours.
Just, like shaking.
- And we had these long
three-inch pieces of dialogue.
- Yeah.
- I just remember
just completely freezing, literally
and mentally.
- Yeah, I think I was just running about on that day
- You were.
- I was having a bit of fun.
- But we all fluff our lines.
- Yeah, we all fluff our lines.
- That's kind of the nature of being an actor.
- And that’s the beauty of it.
- You have to say the same lines.
- Everyone makes mistakes.
- I think we all-
- I have a tendency
to every time they say cut,
I change, I do like a weird face.
- Kit does this thing where he'll
they’ll say cut and he'll look at the director and go.
- Yeah, I love to seek approval.
So I pretty much as soon as they say cut
I think I break character
quite quickly, so probably not me.
I kind of stay in this like half state.
So when they say cut where we go in between takes,
I kind of go in this
half state of I'm just my ears are listening-
- You go into zen mood, sort of.
- I go into zen state
or I just close my eyes and stuff.
- I just feel like Elle and I are so similar
that I'm just
the same
off set and on set, you know,
because I was in high school
I was just like in a uniform
and my hair in bunches.
Yeah.
I think I was just I was just Elle anyway.
- I have to say me.
- Did you steal anything?
- Yeah, I pitched a few things.
- I took the socks.
- I kept stealing Charlie’s socks because-
- Yeah, I stole socks, because-
- Yeah, you forgot to take them off.
-Yeah, do socks count?
- Socks are clothes and also
I wasn't home so I had to like ration my socks.
So I was like, I'll just not take them
off the end of the day.
And then wash Charlie's socks and use them.
- You loved his jumpers, though.
I love Charlie’s jumpers.
I didn't take any of them though,
because they only had one of each one
and they weren't allowed to give me them.
- Yaz
One of the funniest things about Yaz is
the TikTok references.
- Oh!
- And also the certain noises
that Yaz will make.
- Remarks.
- Remarks, things like that.
- Yeah.
Always a funny quip.
- Yeah. So, Will does a great impression of Yaz.
So I'm going to I'm going to take it-
- What? Me? What?
- Go on, go on.
- Uh oh.
- “Oh, Child”.
- Yeah, that's pretty much me.
- I feel like it became contagious.
Like, everyone started doing it.
Like, the whole crew and the cast, everyone was doing it.
- You two would have music offs.
Like, I’d hear club dance tracks in your dressing room.
- We did, do you remember that.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Oh my God.
- They slowly turning each of their speakers up
because we got given speakers on the first day.
- Yeah, and we just used them.
- You’d hear one genre of music and then another.
- One classical and then another rap.
- Getting louder and louder and louder.
I think also the amount of coffee you drank.
- I drank a lot of coffee.
- Yeah, that worried me a bit.
- But I feel like
that's just part of me.
- Yeah, just me and my coffee.
- I would arrive
and have a coffee straightaway because I
wouldn't be able to function.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Yeah.
- It did mean there
a couple of kissing scenes
where I was, I was punished deeply
by the-
- This makes me sound like a really bad person.
- No, no, no, no, but-.
- I had a chewy. I had chewing gum.
- Yeah, there was one point
where you were caught off guard
and you were like,
“ Ok, we need to rehearse this kissing scene”.
- And I had a coffee in my hand.
- Yeah, exactly.
- I apologise.
- That was difficult for me.
- It’s keeping you awake.
- And I thought maybe I should
next time maybe I should get an egg sandwich
or something like that and have it right before.
You didn’t do that?
- Payback.