- "Finally Nick and Charlie!!!
The book was awesome and now this."
Finally, and now this. - Now this, now this.
Thank God, finally. - And now this.
(upbeat music)
- Hi, my name's Kit Connor and I play Nick Nelson.
And I'm Joe Locke, and I play Charlie Spring.
- We are about to read and respond
to your comments on the teaser trailer
for our new show, Heartstopper.
But only the nice ones.
- I can't wait to see
what Heartstopper super fans have to say.
- Me neither.
- You're over there.
- Hi. - Hi.
- Nick Nelson, he is the star player on the rugby team.
We are a trio of borderline outcasts.
- He's different.
- Hey.
- Dustin said, "YESSS!!! We need more queer youth stories!
I wish there were shows like this when I was growing up.
It would've made accepting myself
and coming out so much easier."
I think that's exactly what we sort of hoped for the show.
- It is.
Literally, a quote of what we'd hoped what the show is.
- Yeah, we're so glad, Dustin, that you feel that way.
- Anannya Sharmeen says,
"How did y'all pick such a perfect Charlie?"
It's up to you decide if they did or not I guess.
- Ha Ni says, "OMG... Alice Oseman's masterpiece
"love love love this so mucchhhh."
We love it too. - Yeah.
- I'm very, very excited.
- Hi. - Hi.
Having such a big and passionate fan base behind it,
I was a bit like, "I don't wanna disappoint anyone."
- Because these characters mean so much to so many people
and had such an effect on people's lives,
there does come a certain level of pressure.
But at the same time, it was mostly exciting for me.
- Yeah, definitely.
- Just being able to kind of bring these characters to life.
I had something I wanted to ask you.
Do you wanna go out with me?
Do you wanna join the rugby team?
- What?
- Ella Wirawan says, "The actors playing Charlie and Nick
are spot on, the way their interaction is shy but sweet,
I love the webtoon and I love the trailer,
this is soo exciting. I can't wait."
Neither can we. - Yeah.
- Thank you so much.
- Jinnnnnnnmoon says,
"You'll always be famous Heartstopper."
We hope so.
- It's up to you guys actually, if it happens.
- Exactly, that's really up to you guys.
That is a slightly strange feeling because like,
when we first got announced,
I hadn't really seen much of us.
And there was a great sense of trust
and sort of hope that was placed in us.
- It's a very nice feeling.
It sort of eases it a bit 'cause you know that people
are already like saying nice things.
- Yeah.
- Maybe that means they might actually like it?
- Yeah.
(Nick and Charlie grunting)
- Well done. (both laughing)
- Idont.want.free.earbuds,
"No because why is Joe's/Charlie's
giggle so adorable here?!"
(Charlie giggling)
- It is pretty adorable actually I think.
- It is.
- I think but that's mostly because of me actually,
to be honest, I think I just made him giggle like that.
And it's quite easy to get a giggle out of Charlie Spring.
You know, you just sort of hit him
with this sort of "Hi, I'm..."
- Hit him?
Did you just say, "Hit him?"
- Recreate it now. - No I couldn't.
- Right now. - No, no, no.
That's too much pressure.
Kit was agreed that I'm probably not as shy
and adorable as Charlie is, so I had to really push myself
to become more shy and more adorable.
- No, but he did it perfectly.
So job well done, really?
- How do I stop liking someone,
specifically a straight guy?
- Uh, a question for the ages.
- Do you ever feel like you're only doing things
because everyone else is, and you're scared to change?
- Thehappymandrake said, "The light reflection making
those little rainbows when Charlie saw Nick
for the first time literally screaming GAY."
That was probably the intention
so I'm glad that that's what you saw from it.
- It's all those little illustrations and things like that.
It's the little details. - Yeah.
Timothy Richardson said, "It looks PHENOMENAL
and the comics may be cry so already know
this will have me SOBBING.
The representation, not just in the LGBTQ+ community
but in mental health, UGH I adore it all.
Truly powerful. I'm so excited."
So am I.
- That was a nice performance as well.
- Thank you, I just thought I really put it into...
- He's an actor, you can tell.
It's a very happy show.
It's a very positive show
but it does also touch on these more important topics.
- Aw, are you gay for them? (chuckles)
- What's going on?
- [Boy] Nick's lost all his friends
and he's getting into fights.
(fist smacks)
(boys oh'ing)
- I feel like 10 years ago it wouldn't have been made.
And so for it to actually exist as a thing,
for people to be able to watch.
And that's what I'm most proud of.
- And to be able to make a show like this
for really everyone to see.
You can watch it with your parents.
You can watch it with anyone.
It's a real honor to be able to do that.
- I wanna believe in romance.
(upbeat music)
- Hypothetically, what sort of boy do you wanna go out with?
- Hi. - Hi.
- Wallsrare, Shaerenluvv, Honeymaylinn.
"Not the raining scene aaaaaaaa."
"Still thinking about the rain scene.. GOD."
"THE ICONIC RAIN SCENE."
Um yeah, we did the rain scene.
(panting) Hi.
- Hi.
- It was very cold. - It was cold.
- It was very cold. - I don't know why I thought,
"Oh, it'll just be warm water."
- But I had some basically
like a sort of scuba suit underneath.
Felt great. - And he was walking around,
he sounded like...
- Sort of like a, yeah,
like a rubber man essentially. - Squeeky man, but yeah.
It's like the most iconic scene.
And so, we had to get it perfect.
- Yeah.
- There was someone who was across the road
and saw filming it and worked out what show it was
and what scene we were filming by just the fact
that Kit was running out
in the rain. - Yeah.
- Which I think that itself
is like how iconic it is. - Yeah.
In the script, there are actually moments written down
as Heartstopper moments.
So hopefully that, your heart stops every time.
Every time one - Hopefully,
of those moments comes up. - not too much.
We want you to watch the whole show
and not only the episode. - Exactly, we want you
to survive the 8 episodes.
But yeah, I think that there are quite a few...
- Hundreds, thousands.
Maybe actually. - Loads.
- It's literally just another silly crush.
- It's not a crush.
Come on, dream guy. - I dunno.
Just someone I can have a laugh with.
- Dustin or Timothy Richardson.
- They're my favorite comments.
- They're both my...
Well done, because they're so heartfelt and...
- I feel like what we wanted the show to
- Exactly your echoing - make people feel so...
- exactly what we wanted.
- Yeah. - So thank you so much.
(upbeat music)
- Glad Nick's such a nice friend.
- Thank you all for joining us.
We cannot wait to bring Nick, Charlie
and the rest of the squad to life.
- See you on April 22nd. (Joel gasping)