“It’s a real honor to be able to make a show like ‘Heartstopper,'” says actor Kit Connor about the Netflix original series, which is based on the graphic novel series by Alice Oseman and follows the romance between a pair of teenage classmates. “To have a show like ‘Heartstopper’ kind of shows how far we’ve come as a community and as a society.” We talked with Connor and his co-star Joe Locke about their work on the show. Watch our exclusive video interview above.

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Locke plays Charlie Spring, who was recently outed as gay and faces bullying at school, but Locke marvels that Charlie is still “just such a nice person … He cares about his friends and family” and his hardships haven’t taken away his innate goodness. Connor plays Nick,...