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

Teen Vogue

The stars of Netflix's hit drama 'Heartstopper,' Kit Connor and Joe Locke, reveal their "first" everything! From the first friend they made on set to their first on-screen kiss, Kit and Joe are spilling all the tea. When was Kit's first audition? What was Joe's first job before acting? What were their first big purchases since becoming actors?   SAG-AFTRA members are currently on strike; as part of the strike, union actors are not promoting their film and TV projects. This video was conducted prior to the strike.  Director: Jameer Pond Director of Photography: Alfonso Editor: Jess Lane Producer: Madison Coffey Associate Producer: Rafael Vasquez Production Coordinator: Natasha Soto-Albors Camera Operator: Jack Belisle Audio Engineer: Rehanna Chandan Production Assistant: Ziyne Abdo Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter Supervising Editor: Erica Dillman Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds Graphics Supervisor: Ross Rackin

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00:00 - Oh, the first kiss on screen, Joseph.

00:02 - I think we were both nervous,

00:03 we're trying to like,

00:04 it's the first time we'd kissed on screen,

00:06 and kissed in general, we hadn't kissed off screen.

00:09 But.

00:10 - Joe, you weren't supposed to say that.

00:11 - Sorry, damn.

00:13 - Hi, I'm Kit Conner.

00:14 - And I'm Joe Locke.

00:15 And today we're gonna be sharing

00:16 some of our firsts with Teen Vogue.

00:18 (upbeat music)

00:21 - My first ever audition was for an Xbox commercial.

00:29 And I got it, somehow.

00:31 So exciting.

00:32 I didn't get anything from the Xbox commercial,

00:34 actually, annoyingly.

00:35 I just.

00:36 - Not even an Xbox?

00:37 - Not even an Xbox.

00:38 - My first audition was for "Hot Stopper".

00:40 So, we'll know how that one went.

00:44 - I'd say the first friend that I made on set

00:46 was the gorgeous Mr. William Gao,

00:51 who is actually my husband.

00:53 - Congrats, by the way.

00:54 - Sorry, I couldn't make it.

00:56 - Whatever.

00:57 I think I immediately thought

00:58 that he was just unbelievably cool.

00:59 So, I really wanted him to like me.

01:03 I was like, that would be cool

01:05 if this cool person thinks that I'm somewhat cool.

01:10 I would then later learn

01:11 that he's also a very, very, very lovely person.

01:15 So that made me like him even more.

01:18 But just immediately, on the surface level,

01:21 I was like, this guy's cool.

01:22 I want friends.

01:23 - I think we all became friends very quickly.

01:25 'Cause "Hot Stopper" was such a show

01:27 where everyone spent so much time with each other.

01:29 Like, for me especially,

01:31 I found we all bonded as a group very quickly.

01:34 - First time I played rugby was the first day on set.

01:38 - Yeah.

01:39 - No, we had a--

01:39 - We had one session.

01:41 One rehearsal session.

01:42 - I'd been training for a couple of weeks.

01:45 And I say training, it didn't really pay off, clearly.

01:47 But I had been training

01:49 with my really great rugby trainer, Paul.

01:52 And there was one time where Joe came and joined us.

01:56 And he came in with not,

01:59 we said come in, I guess, sweatpants.

02:02 - I came in sweatpants.

02:03 - They were some very bougie sweatpants.

02:05 - I don't own rugby clothes.

02:08 - But just like sports clothes.

02:09 - Yeah, I do now, but then I definitely didn't.

02:12 - They were just, he was looking very chic.

02:15 And I was like, this isn't gonna go well

02:17 if he's about to jump in the mud.

02:19 But you did quite well.

02:20 - I did fine.

02:21 I can do sports, I just choose not to.

02:23 - Yeah, you can.

02:24 Our first kiss on screen,

02:25 what was it?

02:27 - Rain kiss.

02:28 - It was the rain kiss.

02:29 - I remember it distinctly

02:30 because the way that they had to angle the umbrella,

02:33 the water went straight down my back.

02:35 I'd go in for the kiss and my lips,

02:37 I was so cold, it was just like shaking and shivering.

02:39 'Cause the rain machine was cold,

02:41 the umbrella made the water go down my back.

02:43 - It's just like a cold shower.

02:44 - We were both just soaking, it was just cold.

02:46 - Yeah.

02:47 - And then also, I think we were both nervous

02:49 and trying to like, it was the first time

02:50 we'd kissed on screen, kissed in general,

02:53 we hadn't kissed off screen.

02:54 But...

02:55 - Jokes!

02:58 You weren't supposed to say that.

02:58 - Sorry, damn!

03:00 It was stressful, but it looks great in the show.

03:03 - Yeah, I think it's a really beautiful moment.

03:05 - I do remember one of the runners

03:07 getting us Krispy Kreme donuts afterwards

03:10 and I just started crying at the sight of this donut.

03:12 'Cause I was so cold and tired.

03:14 - Yeah, I remember that actually.

03:15 Yeah, he really started weeping

03:17 at this Krispy Kreme donut

03:19 because it was just an emotional day.

03:21 - It was an emotional day.

03:23 - Ooh, who was the first person

03:24 to break character in the world?

03:26 - I don't think the first person was,

03:27 but I think we all sort of quite equally do it sometimes.

03:30 - Yeah.

03:31 - Sometimes you can't help yourself.

03:32 - We did it a lot in season two.

03:33 - Yeah, and that's because we were all

03:36 more comfortable with each other

03:37 and therefore knew how to make each other laugh.

03:39 - There were certain points where we were doing scenes

03:40 and our main objective was to make the other person laugh.

03:44 There's one scene in the show that is gonna,

03:46 that has made it in.

03:47 - I just...

03:48 - And it's so funny, it was literally me, Joe,

03:53 Toby and Will.

03:54 - You've gotta guess which scene.

03:55 - Yes, people are gonna guess, it's in Paris.

03:57 We just haven't laughed so much on set.

04:00 And we laugh a lot on set.

04:02 And that was so funny.

04:03 And it was good, I think.

04:04 - I think it was great.

04:05 - I think it came out well.

04:06 First time we shot in Paris was a crazy week.

04:09 - Yeah.

04:10 - First thing was, literally we got there

04:12 and they'd cordoned off this section

04:15 in a very public place in Paris.

04:18 And we were meant to run into this metro

04:20 and there were loads of people staring at us.

04:21 On "Hearts of the Ball" we weren't really used

04:23 to shooting anywhere where there were people watching.

04:28 Really shot a lot of season one in the school

04:32 and things like that.

04:32 So it was very strange for us to do that.

04:35 That was an intense first day for us, for sure.

04:37 - Which became an intense week.

04:38 - Yes, it was one week filming about three or four,

04:43 like three episodes.

04:44 - Yeah, which is not normal.

04:46 - Which is not normal, but we did it.

04:48 - Whatever you say is gonna really,

04:49 that's what I say.

04:50 - I mean, like a brother.

04:55 - I was thinking that.

04:56 - Yeah.

04:57 - That was my word too.

04:58 - Or like partner, like partner in crime.

05:00 - Yeah.

05:00 - So.

05:01 - Duo.

05:02 - Yeah, duo.

05:03 - Duo.

05:04 - Slightly less sort of romantic or poetic, but sorry.

05:08 - I'll find another word.

05:09 - But yeah, we'll say brother, partner,

05:11 you know, partner in brackets, in crime.

05:14 - Close brackets.

05:15 - Close brackets, there you go.

05:16 You got it.

05:17 - Close brackets.

05:18 - Yeah.

05:19 - And we were just thinking the same thing.

05:20 So clearly we're just in sync.

05:22 You know?

05:23 - In sync, so at the same time.

05:24 - I used to work in a toy shop and I hated it.

05:28 And I would hide my phone in my shoe.

05:31 So I could go on my phone when people weren't looking.

05:34 It was a toy shop upstairs

05:35 and like a home hardware store downstairs.

05:37 And you always never wanted to be on the toy section

05:39 because if you're in the toy section, it's really quiet.

05:42 Whereas the home hardware was really busy.

05:44 And if it was quiet, the days were so much longer.

05:46 My first job was an Xbox commercial.

05:49 My second job was a Sainsbury's commercial

05:53 and it was a back to school commercial.

05:55 And it was really upsetting at the time actually

05:58 because I did the voiceover for it.

06:00 And the lines were something like,

06:01 "Oh, new jumper, mom reckons I'll grow into it."

06:05 Or something like that, 'cause it was a bit big.

06:07 And then they actually dubbed over my voice

06:09 with a Northern accent.

06:11 "New jumper, mom reckons I'll grow into it."

06:14 Everyone thought I was just putting on

06:16 a really bad Northern accent,

06:17 but it was actually a Northern kid.

06:19 - Putting on a bad Northern accent.

06:20 - If anything, he got mugged off

06:21 because I got all the screen time, but whatever.

06:25 I think my first big purchase when I was younger

06:28 was I'd just done a film.

06:32 It was like one of my first like paychecks.

06:34 And I was like 10.

06:36 I used to really love the film "Spy Kids."

06:39 I can't remember which "Spy Kids" it was,

06:41 but there was one where there was like a flip phone

06:44 that came out of a watch.

06:45 So I always, when I saw that the Apple Watch came out,

06:47 I was like, "I really want that."

06:49 So then I bought an Apple Watch

06:51 with one of my first paychecks.

06:54 - I actually also, mine was an Apple Watch,

06:56 and I bought it because at this toy shop,

06:58 I was getting caught on my phone.

07:00 And with my paycheck, I bought myself an Apple Watch

07:03 so I could go on the Apple Watch instead of being on my phone

07:05 and they couldn't tell me off.

07:07 - So there's just, there's a real story

07:09 that's connecting here. - Yeah.

07:10 Maybe Brazil.

07:11 - Brazil was pretty insane.

07:12 That was the only time I've ever felt famous in my life.

07:16 We did Comic-Con.

07:16 It was fun, but it was intense.

07:19 We can still walk down the street

07:20 and do what we want to do, why not?

07:22 - Yeah, no, it's not that serious.

07:25 And then also maybe when we went to Paris.

07:28 - Yeah.

07:29 - Was like, that was the,

07:30 I'd say that was the actual first time

07:32 where it was intense and like, you know,

07:34 just like people sort of coming to your hotel

07:37 and things like that.

07:38 I'll tell you one word, or maybe two words.

07:41 More kissing.

07:43 Immediately. - Yeah.

07:44 Straight off the bat. - Episode one.

07:45 Episode one. - 10 minutes.

07:46 - The door opens.

07:47 Smooching. - Yeah.

07:48 - That's gonna be a shock to the system.

07:50 After watching season one,

07:51 there's just sort of angsty like that.

07:55 Suddenly we're, we're smooching.

07:57 - I was gonna say more mature.

08:00 - That's probably a more mature answer actually.

08:03 Thank you so much for having us, Team Vogue.

08:05 Hopefully you guys watch and enjoy

08:07 season two of "Heartstopper."

08:09 - Yeah, watch it.

08:10 (upbeat music)

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