"heartstopper forever" is @guardian's pick of the week (https://t.co/sSUizWI05w) and one of @nytimes' best movies coming to netflix in july (https://t.co/OKuispLe3j)
Lily Allen delivers a touching speech about JADE while presenting her with O2 Silver Clef’s Best Female Award:
“This is the award for Best Female, full-stop. No qualifiers or caveats. JADE really is the best woman.
I am OBSESSED with JADE. JADE the musician in all-caps, and Jade the woman in lowercase.
Infectious in her energy and inspiring in her drive, watching her work fills me with awe. Watching her live, even more so. She dives in, digs deep, loves ferociously, dances frenetically, and approaches everything with a generosity and optimism that we could all learn from.
It is my absolute privilege to present the award for Best Female to my friend and collaborator, JADE.”
it‘s always "hudson should do this" and "hudson should do that" and never "we should start minding our business and start being normal about him" with a lot of yall
kit connor on the end of “heartstopper”:
“there have been moments where i’ve had flutters of emotion. will [gao, who plays tao] and i did our last scene together the other day, and i was like: ‘oh fuck, this is quite upsetting.’ these characters have meant a lot to us over the years and we’ll always carry them with us.”
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joe locke on “heartstopper”:
“it’s more than friendship; it’s family.” [mentioning whatsapp groups among the cast and the fact the young actors lived together while filming seasons two and three.] “i know these people will always be in my life.”
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kit connor on him and joe locke becoming executive producers on "heartstopper forever," roles that gave them "a lot more say and involvement in the whole process of script edits":
"obviously, alice [oseman] knows heartstopper better than anyone and we would never want to get our grubby little hands on it too much. heartstopper isn’t just alice's any more. it’s everyone's."
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so what advice would kit connor and joe locke give their younger selves at the start of their own heartstopper journeys, before the sudden fame and pressure of carrying a cultural juggernaut?
“just enjoy it,” locke says immediately. “it’s a very weird and strange and stressful thing, and i know i got in my head about it.”
connor looks over like a protective older brother. “i’d probably say something similar. it shouldn’t be scary. heartstopper is one of the more beautiful things you could ever do. so embrace the beauty of it.”
having each other helped. “i can’t imagine how you’d deal with it on your own,” locke says. “it’s happened to all of us at the same time, so it’s really nice to just have that support. especially as it’s such a unique thing.”
connor’s and locke’s final heartstopper scenes together took place in burnham park in buckinghamshire, a location that has appeared throughout the series. “it was just us two, which is a nice way to end it, like a very nice loving scene,” says locke, smiling.
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