- Try and make it really neat and lovely.
There, oh, I haven't given you much space,
and it's also just my (indistinct).
I'm really sorry about this.
Oh.
I'll hold it and you clap it.
- Okay. - Okay.
- Do I just, do I just?
There you go. (slate clicking)
- There you go.
- That was so satisfying.
Do you have the lid?
- Yes, there you go.
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Hi, my name is Kit Connor.
- And I'm Joe Locke.
- And we're gonna take you around the tour of London
to show you our favorite places.
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- Where are we going, Joe?
- We're going to Brick Lane
because that was the first place that we hung out as a cast.
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- [Kit] You see that, it's Brick Lane.
- It's just so cool.
- I think it's just, yeah, it's just really cool.
Its really trendy, it's really cool
and you get really cool clothes.
- There's the vintage market right there too.
- Yeah, we went to that little sort of unrounded market.
- I think it's an old carpark.
- And that right there,
there was a little sort of side street
where we just sat and just talked, very nice.
- [Joe] Will bought this like incredible.
- Yeah, Will bought this long Burberry jacket
with like paint splatters on it and he still wears it.
- [Joe] It's so cool.
Will wear that with dramas
and it'll look way cooler than any of us have a coat.
- Yeah, Will's really cool, annoyingly.
He's really cool.
He's like, he looks cool,
he dresses well. - Yeah.
- This is basically, this has just become
our sort of, our crushing over Will Gao,
but I think it's fair.
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- [Interviewer] What were the early days on set like?
Did everyone get on immediately?
Was it awkward, were you nervous?
- It was a little bit awkward obviously
because like the nature of like, Nick and Charlie,
they're meant to get on very well and immediately.
- The mean Kit didn't, no I'm joking. (laughs)
We did, we did. (laughs)
- Yeah, we just hated each other so soon.
- Still do.
- No, but yeah, it was a little bit awkward.
- [Joe] In like a first day at school kind of way.
- [Kit] Yeah, exactly.
It was everyone sort of settling in.
- [Joe] By the time we started filming,
we were all quite good friends.
- [Kit] Yeah, we were very close, yeah.
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- Haven't figured where we are.
- [Interviewer] We're at Holborn.
- Ah!
- [Kit] Beautiful, beautiful Holborn.
- [Interviewer] The Holborn if you're American.
- [Kit] See, I always call it Holborn
but I'm not American,
so, but is it Holborn?
- [Interviewer] Holborn, yeah.
So actings, how did you get into acting?
- I used to always like, every time I was in school,
like on Saturdays, I would go through two acting classes
and then one after school
and then doing some amateur show.
Heartstopper was my first professional thing,
and it was just an open call.
So like, they wanted someone new to play Charlie
and then I auditioned and then yeah, managed to get it.
- [Interviewer] That's wild. - It's really weird.
It's like, feels weird talking about it
cause like it doesn't still not a real thing.
- It's like a fairy tale.
- Yeah, it is.
It's like right now, the life I'm living
has like always been my dream to one day do that,
and I feel very, very lucky.
I think a lot of it is just luck.
- And a little bit talent as well,
but yeah, he's got a little bit in there.
No, he's a (indistinct).
He is very much deserving of it.
I've been quite lucky in the sense
that I've quite slowly kind of built up my career in a sense
like, sort of stepping stones.
I couldn't imagine how insane it would be for like,
for Joe for example,
to suddenly go like straight into the lead.
- [Joe] Holding onto you, I'd be like, who's that person?
What are they doing?
- That's the director, Joe.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What does his action mean?
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- [Interviewer] So also we just drove through Soho
which is arguably the sort of heart
of London's LGBT Community.
Coming into Heartstopper,
you know, it's a really, really important piece of work
for like LGBT kids and stuff.
How does it feel to be involved
in something so ingrained in a specific community?
- It's great to like that we're able to like
tell this story.
- [Kit] Yeah, I think it's just an honor, really,
to be honest because it's so.
I honestly think it's like such impactful thing
and such a proper honor to be a part of it
and to be able to bring it to the people,
especially on Netflix which is such a massive stage
for so many people to be able to see it.
- It's also great that it'll be like in countries
that maybe are early or on in their journey to acceptance.
- [Kit] Yeah, Netflix has such a huge reach.
- Its the perfect place for it.
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- [Interviewer] Where are your favorite places in London?
- As the new Londoner,
why don't you say it first?
- My favorite place to eat in is Balans on Compton Street.
I love it so much
like, I could eat every meal on that place.
Their French toast is like actually life changing.
Like that's not even like, I'm not even exaggerating.
- [Kit] I love sort of, Borough,
and the kind of London Bridge,
Borough, Waterloo kind of area.
Growing up as an actor,
I did lot of like, theater in those kind of areas
and lots of great food and things like that.
You're so close to the South Bank.
- We had our cast and green screening the cinema
just around the corner.
- [Interviewer] Did you?
- [Kit] Yeah, in the. - [Joe] The Curzon.
- [Kit] The Curzon.
- [Joe] Literally just around this corner.
- [Kit] Shaftesbury Avenue.
- [Joe] It was really great.
- [Kit] We watched all four hours of the show.
- [Interviewer] Have you watched all in one go together?
- All in one go. - Yeah.
We watched the whole, it was the cast and green screening.
- Is it there?
It's just there.
We're about to pass it.
- [Interviewer] Is it weird watching yourselves?
- [Kit] Yes. - [Joe] Yeah.
Especially like, I was watching like the kissing scene,
so my mum sat here and Kit sat here,
so it was just a really strange experience.
- [Interviewer] Like a huge cinema screen.
- No, cause I don't like watching myself at all.
So the fact that I was able to sit through
like Heartstopper twice,
I was able to sit through the whole thing twice
is testament to like, how much I like it
cause I generally, Rocketman, maybe I can sit through
because I'm not in it for that long.
But then if I'm in it
for more than a quarter of the episode or film,
yeah, I can't, I can't sit through that at all.
- It's hard when you're a star, isn't it Kit?
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- [Interviewer] What is the like,
huge reaction the show gets, feel like?
- It's been mental, really. - It's great cause it's crazy.
It's a lot, but it's cool.
- Yeah and we're so lucky because of the fact
that it's like based on Alice's like previous work
that it's already got that fan base already.
So, they care so much about the comics,
when we are making this show
they're just so excited for anything that comes out.
- [Interviewer] Do they recognize you
when you're out and about?
- Sometimes I think, you like go to like,
Waterstones or something, you just sit by there.
- Although, I went to Waterstones yesterday
to like buy a book for someone.
- And then, oh look the Heartstopper stand.
I'll just stand here like half an hour
and just see if, oh, that's me actually, yeah, yeah.
- You know full well that's the opposite of what I do.
- [Kit] Yeah, it's not, yeah, no.
I think you do just sort of walk into it sometimes.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
But I think it's really cool. - Yeah.
- [Kit] Anytime I do see like, people who recognize me
or anything it's cool.
- [Joe] Kit leaves the house in cap and sunglasses.
- No, but not because of that,
just because I just like doing that, I can't lie.
I wear sunglasses.
This has sort of become a thing
that I wear sunglasses.
- [Interviewer] It's very Posh Spice of you.
- Well, I mean, that's exactly what I was going for.
Yeah, but it's like, it's strange
because when that first happened,
I then felt a little bit insecure wearing sunglasses.
So it would be a really sunny day and I'd be like, yeah.
But if someone takes a picture of me,
then it's just gonna be like,
I'm never gonna hear the end of it.
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Oh, we're in Covent Garden now.
Covent Garden's really cool.
It's another one of my favorite areas.
Covent Garden's great.
Great shopping, great.
Just cool places,
and I did a play at the Donmar
called Welcome Home Captain Fox
when I was like 10 or 11,
that was the first play that I ever did.
- Little mini Kit.
- Little mini me, yeah.
- Mini Kit which is.
- Insert picture of me.
- [Joe] Age 15 looking about eight.
- [Joe] Yeah, I've always had a baby face
like a really, really bad baby face.
So like when we first got cast,
they had my picture
from when I was about like probably 14, 15.
- [Joe] It was honestly his headshot on the wall
in the makeup room.
- [Kit] Yeah, and apparently the whole makeup team
was just like I don't think you cast the right person,
he's just really young,
like, really appreciate that, yeah.
- He's showing his age now, he's got a beard.
- This isn't me trying to desperately look old.
- It looks good on you.
- Thank you, Joe.
See, he's complimenting me.
This is really, you know when Joe compliments you,
like really means something
cuz he doesn't do it very often.
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- Opera, do you like opera Kit?
- [Kit] Will and I did actually go to an opera.
- [Joe] You did.
- [Kit] We went to Glyndebourne Opera Festival
and I'd never actually seen an opera before
because I'm just not cultured like that.
But you know, Will is quite,
I think Will has actually been in an opera.
- He has.
- Cuz Will was like, you know a musician sort of.
Again, we're back on Will Gao, but why not?
- [Joe] I can't stand an opera for long.
- Yeah, I can't actually remember.
- I love musicals, but I'm not an opera fan.
- [Interviewer] Do you, what's your favorite musicals?
- Well, it's like picking me to my children.
I love The Color Purple,
it's my favorite novel and it's my favorite musical.
My favorite musical at the moment is Frozen, genuinely.
I've seen it twice, it's so good.
- Really? - It's so good.
Like, I went in thinking like,
it'll be like a Disney musical, so it'll be great.
But it like won't be anything like actually good.
But it was actually like genuinely,
like the stage effects are like insane.
That's Frozen.
- Best Frozen (indistinct)
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- [Interviewer] Would you like to be in a musical?
Either of you sing?
- I sing a little bit.
- You played Elton John, he can sing.
- [Interviewer] Oh, yeah. (laughs)
- Yeah, I mean I sing a little bit
but like I'm not trained.
- [Joe] I'd love to be in a musical.
I just dunno if I have this.
- [Kit] See, I need to up my game in musicals
cause I haven't actually seen that many musicals.
- I've never seen women's.
I feel like, cause I know it's never gonna close.
- [Kit] Yeah. - To be fair.
I was gonna go watch it last year.
But then it was the day that I ended up coming to set
to meet Olivia.
So I was like, tickets can go.
- Oh yeah.
- [Interviewer] Did you go to set just to meet?
- Yeah. - Well, no.
Cause we ended up doing some re-shoots.
- Oh yeah. - No, we did.
We did. - Yeah, but basically,
so I had two days filming with Olivia.
I had two days filming and they were like best days ever.
- Kit's gonna tell the story
like as if I tried to muscle in his days, but I didn't.
- No, no, it wasn't like that at all.
But, it was originally meant to be Olivia and I
are filming for two days,
and then on the second day,
I think Joe was essentially like,
you know, I would like to meet her obviously.
They ended up scheduling it so that Joe had some.
- No, no. - No, no, no.
- That's not what happened.
- Okay, Joe's gonna tell you what happened.
- What happened was I wasn't supposed to meet her
and then I got called in the morning of the second day
being like, we might have to do the re-shoots
from pickups of just before the rain scene in the hallway.
- [Kit] Right, yeah.
- [Joe] And then they were like,
so you'll get to meet Olivia,
and I was like, well, if that happens, that'll be amazing
and then they call me at like three,
being like, yeah, can you come in?
- The question is, the question of the ages is,
does anyone believe that?
Does anyone believe that?
- A different day.
- [Kit] You weren't like on the phone to your agent like,
get me in.
- I don't have the confidence to do that.
- Yeah, exactly, but it was a nice,
it was overall a very nice day as well.
- Yeah, it was really nice.
- We'd been filming for the day
and then you came and had a little chat
and yeah, it was a really nice day
because Olivia is just lovely.
- [Interviewer] I was gonna say what's she like?
- She's just amazing.
So effortlessly good.
It was almost scary to act alongside her
because it was just like, oh my.
- [Interviewer] You had that scene
that all the fans are very excited about,
which is the like coming out scene.
- [Kit] Yeah. - [Joe] I love that.
- [Interviewer] She had such a good scene.
- That's my favorite scene.
- [Interviewer] It made me cry and cry.
- Yeah, and when I first read that scene,
I was like, in tears.
- But that's the thing.
When we first we're shooting that scene,
we were reading it through
cuz before every scene you sort of read through the lines
and normally you go like 50%,
and then suddenly I saw like a tear,
like stream down out Olivia's face
and I was just thinking like, oh my God,
like I need to up my game right now
cuz if that's what she's doing on the read through like,
yeah, I think I got a tear out in the first take,
I was like, yes, okay, that's me.
That's me, I'm done.
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The great thing about The Shard
is that you can basically see it from anywhere in London.
Like I'll literally be at home in Croydon
and you can see that.
- [Joe] Can you actually?
- [Kit] Yeah. - [Joe] Really, wow.
- [Kit] You can see it from South London
quite easily, actually.
It's just really tall.
- [Interviewer] Tallest building in Europe?
- Europe, I think.
It's building at least,
I think they're probably like structures there taller,
I think, I don't know.
- You're wrong. - Okay.
- I managed to google it yesterday.
Its actually the seventh.
It's not actually that tall.
- It was, no, it was never the tallest.
- It was never the tallest, it was never the tallest.
- [Interviewer] What, I've been lied to.
- We were lied to.
Well, it's just upsetting, really.
- [Interviewer] I feel really let down by that.
- It really ruined that for us now.
- I've spent like double the amount of time in London
as I have in the Isle of Man the last year.
So I feel like I know London quite well.
- [Kit] Yeah, you've suddenly been like,
a proper Londoner now actually.
You spent more time in London recently than I have.
- London just naturally calls to me, like, sometimes.
Shut up. - The most dramatic thing
I've ever heard. - No, I mean like.
- [Interviewer] If you listen really carefully.
- It calls to me, it calls to me.
- You know what, I sometimes.
- No, how does London call to you, Joe?
- You know what, its fine, Kit, it's fine.
- Thank you very much
for coming on our tour around London today.
- This rather chaotic but very fun,
and don't forget to watch Heartstopper on Netflix.
- April 22nd.
- Probably already out by the time they watch it.
- Well then and onwards.
- Yeah, forever, every day re-watch it.
- All around the world.
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