We’re not thirty-year-olds playing teenagers it’s very much our mindset now. The fact that Joe and I both are still in school made it, to be honest, a little bit easier as actors because we didn’t have to think back and remember what it was like. You couldn’t get anymore in school than that!” Kit added, “A really, really important aspect of it is how it plays out in school, and how it works in that environment. We have our A Levels like three weeks after the show comes out. “But Heartstopper is definitely a story that hasn’t been told before and so it should be told with the most authenticity as possible. “I think it makes it more authentic because there’s a time and place for 35-year-olds playing 16-year-olds, you know.,” Joe said. Joe and Kit, who are both 18 years old, told Them in May 2022 about how being close in age to their characters (Charlie is 15, while Nick is 16) helped them relate to Charlie and Nick.
