‘Heartstopper’ Lead Shares He Wants To Be Disney’s First Gay Prince
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Actor John Locke, who stars in the Netflix hit series Heartstopper, says he wants to play the first gay prince in a Disney movie.
Locke told The Independent:
I would love to play the first gay Disney prince. That would be a dream.
Locke won out having auditioned against 10,000 young actors to play Charlie Spring in Heartstopper, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Alice Osman. The British coming-of-age series follows the recently outed Charlie as he falls in love with Nick Nelson (Kit Connor), a popular rugby player he sits next to in class.
Locke said that he hopes “people will see themselves” in the Netflix show.
I want it to say to young queer people: ‘You deserve to have this story. This happiness is not out of your reach. You do not deserve the things in a classic heterosexual love story because you happen to be queer.’
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Heartstopper is currently streaming on Netflix.
