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Joe Locke Defends Straight Actors Playing Gay Roles
Joe Locke, the year-old who shot to fame portraying Charlie Spring in the Netflix series Heartstopper, says he doesn&#;t trust it&#;s &#;fair&#; to stop straight actors from playing LGBTQ characters.
Defending the thought of casting roles regardless of the actors&#; sexual orientations, Locke told The Guardian that he believes the noun should be on how actors approach their roles in an effort to portray a character&#;s experience as authentically as possible.
&#;I wouldn&#;t want to not be able to compete a straight character, so I don&#;t think it&#;s fair to stop someone straight &#; who can do all the study &#; from playing a gay character,&#; he said. &#;As long as you’re playing a part authentically and with the top intentions &#; you&#;re not just playing a stereotype &#; then go for it.&#;
Reflecting on his Heartstopper casting experience Locke said, &#;[t]here&#;s no way they would have been proficient to say, &#;Are you gay, otherwise you can&#;t audition for thi
&#;Heartstopper&#; star Joe Locke comes out as gay
Joe Locke, one of the stars of &#;Heartstopper&#; on Netflix, came out as gay in an interview with Teen Vogue.
Locke, 19, said he has been out since he was about 12 years old, but has not felt the need to come forward publicly with it.
“People own assumed and written it, [but] I haven’t ever corrected anyone because I haven’t felt the necessitate to — I’ve never specifically stated my sexuality [until now],” he said.
Locke, who plays an out gay character, Charlie Spring, in the show, explained what was truly essential to him — with all the fame and public attention that comes with stardom — was privacy, which he and his co-stars feel is difficult to come by now. He explained how it has affected his family’s lives too.
“It’s a weird guilt I sometimes feel that, by association, their lives are affected by choices in my life,” Locke said to Teen Vogue. “It’s a mutual thing. I desire to learn my boundaries and people need to learn theirs. Most attention comes from a really good place, and I hope I always appreciate that.”
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Joe Locke first captured our hearts when he appeared as one-half of the heartwarming teenage gay couple on Netflix&#;s Heartstopper together with Kit Connor.
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Proud does not even open to describe Joe Locke, the young man is the embodiment of gay pride. The Heartstopper actor came out at a very tender age of years-old and then again at Since then, the actor has used his voice to rally behind and to represent the queer community. Back in , Pride in London came back onto the streets after the COVID pandemic. Unfortunately, homophobic protesters thought they could ruin the event. Luckily, Locke and his castmates carried out their message by putting their middle fingers up whilst dancing to the iconic Whitney Houston&#;s &#;I Wanna Dance with Somebody.&#;
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Netflix star Joe Locke understands the importance of playing Charlie Spring in Heartstopper. The actor, who came out as gay before his claim to fame, is speaking publicly about his sexuality.
“It’s really agreeable to carry on getting to know Charlie, growing with him, and using the things that I learned from the craziness of last year to put into Charlie as a character,” Joe told Netflix’s TUDUM in August , ahead of Heartstopper‘s second season.
“Charlie is probably the most confident character in the show. I’ve learned a lot about confidence from him,” the British star added. “About the unlike types of confidence, and how you don’t always need to be an outwardly extra-confident person to be confident in who you are, and consider in staying true to your morals.”
Playing Charlie brought a sense of confidence to Joe’s own life, especially in terms of helping young people in the LGBTQ+ community.
“I deliberate coming out is silly, that it’s still a thing that people own to do,” he shared during an interview with The New York Times in July , revealing that he had come out at