Heartstopper's Kit Connor & Joe Locke Remember Their "Firsts" 🍂

Oh, the first kiss on-screen, Joseph.

The first kiss on screen was...

I think we were both nervous.

We're trying to like...

It was the first time we'd kissed on-screen

and kissed in general.

We hadn't kissed off screen. [chuckles]

Hm.

[laughing] But...

Joe, you weren't

supposed to say that. Sorry, damn.

Hi, I'm Kit Connor.

And I'm Joe Locke.

And today, we're gonna be sharing some of our firsts

with Teen Vogue.

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My first ever audition was for an Xbox commercial,

and I got it somehow.

Wow. So exciting.

I didn't get anything from the Xbox commercial.

That's actually annoyingly.

I just-

Not even an Xbox. Not even an Xbox.

My first audition was for Heartstopper.

[Kit gasps]

So, we all know how that one went.

I would say the first friend that I made on set

was the gorgeous Mr. William Gao,

who is actually my husband.

Congrats, by the way.

Sorry, I couldn't make it.

Whatever.

I think I immediately thought that

he was just unbelievably cool.

So I really wanted him to like me.

I was like, That would be cool if this cool person

thinks that I am, like, somewhat cool.

I would then later learn that he's also

a very, very, very lovely person.

So that made me like him even more.

But just immediately, on the surface level,

I was like, This guy's cool.

I wanna be friends.

I think we all became friends very quickly

'cause Heartstopper was such a show

where everyone spends so much time with each other.

Hmm.

Like, for me especially, I found we all bonded,

like, as a group very quickly.

[Kit laughs]

First time I played rugby was the first day on set.

Yeah.

No, we had a-

We had one session, one rehearsal session.

Yeah, I'd been like, training for a couple weeks,

and I say training, it didn't really pay off clearly,

but I had been training

with my really great rugby trainer, Paul.

And there was one time where Joe came and joined us.

And he like, came in with like, not...

You know, we said like,

Come in, you know, I guess like sweatpants.

I came in sweatpants.

They were some very bougie sweatpants.

I don't own rugby clothes.

But just like, sports clothes

of any kind. I don't...

I do now, but then I definitely didn't.

The were just- I was in my-

He was looking very chic, and I was like,

This isn't gonna go well if he's,

like, about to jump in the mud.

But you did quite well.

I did fine.

I can do sports.

I just choose not to.

Yeah, you can.

Our first kiss on screen, what was it?

What was the kiss? It was the rain kiss.

It was the rain kiss.

I remember it distinctly

because the way that they had to angle the umbrella

the water went straight down my back,

I'd go in for the kiss, and my lips was, I was so cold,

it was just like, shaking and shivering

'cause the rain machine was cold.

The umbrella made the water go down my back.

Just like a cold shower. We were both just soaking.

It was just cold. Yeah.

And then also, I think we were both nervous,

it was the first time we'd kissed on screen

and kissed in general.

We hadn't kissed off screen. [chuckles]

Hm.

[laughing] But...

Joe, you weren't

supposed to say that. Sorry, damn.

It was stressful,

but it looks great in the show.

Yeah, I think it's a really beautiful moment.

I do remember one of the runners [chuckles]

getting us Krispy Kreme donuts afterwards,

and I just started crying at the sight of this donut.

Yeah. Because it was so cold.

Yeah, I remember that, actually.

Yeah, he really started weeping at this Krispy Kreme donut

because it was just an emotional day.

It was an emotional day. You know?

Ooh.

Who was the first person to break character?

I think the first person is...

I think we all sort of quite equally.

Yeah. Do it sometimes.

Yeah.

Sometimes you can't help yourself.

We did it a lot in season two.

Yeah, I think that's because we were all

more comfortable with each other

and therefore know how to make each other laugh.

There were certain points where we were doing scenes,

and our main objective was to make people laugh.

There's one scene in the show that is gonna,

that has made it in. [Joe laughing]

And... And it's so funny.

It was literally me, Joe, Tobie, and Will.

It was in Paris.

You've gotta guess which scene.

Yes, people are going to get it's in Paris.

We just haven't laughed so much on set,

and we laugh a lot on set.

Yeah. And that was so funny.

And it was good, I think.

I think it was nice. I think it came out well.

First time we shot in Paris was a crazy week.

Yeah.

First thing was, literally, we got there,

and they'd cordoned off this section in,

like, a very public place in Paris,

and we were meant to run into this metro,

and there were loads of people staring at us

and on Heartstopper we weren't really used to shooting

anywhere where there were, like, people watching.

Really shot a lot of season one, you know,

in the school and things like that.

So it was very strange for us to do that.

That was an intense first day for us, for sure.

Which became an intense week.

Yes, it was one week filming about three or four...

About three episodes.

Yeah, which is not normal.

Which is not normal, but we did it.

Whatever you say is gonna really be nicer than what I say.

[Kit chuckles]

I mean, like, a brother.

I was thinking that. Yeah.

That was my word too.

Or like, partner.

Like, partner in crime. Yeah.

So...

Duo.

Yeah, Duo, yeah. Duo.

Slightly less sort of romantic or poetic, but sorry.

Fine if it was.

But yeah, we'll say brother, partner,

you know, partner, in brackets, in crime.

Close brackets.

Close brackets, there you go.

You got it. Gotta close the brackets.

Yeah. Great.

And we were just thinking the same thing.

So clearly we're just

in sync. In sync.

You know? See, said at the same time.

I used to work at a toy shop, and I hated it.

And I would hide my phone in my shoe

so I could go on my phone when people weren't looking.

It was a toy shop upstairs

and like a home hardware store downstairs,

and you never wanted to be on the toys section

because if you're in the toy section, it's really quiet.

Whereas the home hardware was really busy,

and if it was quiet, the days were so much longer.

My first job was an Xbox commercial.

My second job was a Sainsbury's commercial,

and it was a back to school commercial.

And it was really upsetting at the time, actually,

because I did the voiceover for it,

and the lines were something like,

New jumper, mum reckons I'll grow into it

or something like that. 'Cause it was a bit big.

And then they actually dubbed over my voice

with a northern accent.

New jumper, mum reckons I'll grow into it.

Everyone thought I was just putting on

a really bad northern accent,

but it was actually a northern kid.

Putting on a bad northern accent.

If anything, he got mugged off

because I got all the screen time.

But, whatever.

I think my first big purchase when I was younger was,

I'd just done a film,

It was like, one of my first paychecks,

and I was like 10.

I used to really love the film Spy Kids.

I can't remember which Spy Kids it was,

but there was one where there was,

like, a flip phone that came out of a watch.

So, when I saw that the Apple Watch came out,

I was like, I really want that.

So then I bought an Apple Watch

with one of my first paychecks.

I actually also...

Mine was an Apple Watch,

and I bought it because at this toy shop,

I was getting caught on my phone,

and with my paycheck, I bought myself an Apple Watch

so I could go on the Apple Watch instead of being my phone.

And they couldn't tell me off.

So there's just a real story that's connecting here.

Yeah. [chuckles]

Maybe Brazil.

Brazil was pretty insane.

That's the only time I've ever felt famous in my life.

We did Comic-Con, it was fun, but it was intense.

We can still walk down the street and do what we want to do.

We're not- Yeah, no, it's not.

It's not that serious. No.

And then also maybe when we went to Paris.

Yeah.

It was pretty...

I'd say that was the actual first time where it was intense

and like, you know, just like people sort of

coming to your hotel and things like that.

I'll tell you what, one word or maybe two words.

More kissing, immediately.

Yeah. Episode one. Straight off the bat.

Episode one- 10 minutes.

Door opens, smooching. [claps]

Yeah.

That's gonna be a shock to the system.

After watching season one,

there's just sort of angsty like that.

Suddenly we're [snaps]

we're smooching.

I was gonna say more mature.

That's probably a more mature answer, actually as well.

Thank you so much for having us Teen Vogue.

Hopefully, you guys watch

and enjoy season two of Heartstopper.

Yay, watch it.

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